Force an SVN checkout command to overwrite current files

Question

I\'m adding an existing site to SVN.

The files already exist on the webserver, and now identical copies (- configuration files) exist in the repository.

I wa

Answer 1

I did not have 1.5 available to me, because I am not in control of the computer. The file that was causing me a problem happened to be a .jar file in the lib directory. Here is what I did to solve the problem:

rm -rf lib
svn up

This builds on Ned's answer. That is: I just removed the sub directory that was causing me a problem rather than the entire repository.