Obstructed folders in Subversion

Question

What the heck does \"obstructed\" mean when you try to check into Subversion? I see two folders in red with text status of \"obstructed.\" I don\'t see what this means anywh

Answer 1

Without knowing what causes this, the solution can be to export the working copy (the entire checkout you have locally) to somewhere else.

If you are using tortoisesvn, you get the option to "export un-versioned files", but I think if doing it from the command line it only exports versioned files so you might have a bit of a laborious task copying un-versioned files manually.

Once done, check out a clean working copy and then drop the exported backup you have over the top of it. It's very important that the backup has no .svn folders in it.

I've seen these errors before when people have checked out working copies inside other working copies or anything else that corrupts the .svn entries.