Commit symlink into subversion

Question

I\'m tring to commit a symlink into subversion, but I get this error when I try to add the actual symlink:

Can\'t replace \'path/to/symlink\' with a

Answer 1

The error I got on svn 1.6.11 reads

svn: Commit failed (details follow):
svn: Entry '/path/to/symlink' has unexpectedly changed special status

I fixed it by simply

svn propset svn:special on /path/to/symlink

And then rerunning the commit. Apparently no need to delete, update, etc....