how to restore a locally deleted folder?

Question

Locally deleting a file followed by svn update restores the local copy of that file. However this does not seem to apply to folders. Is there any way to make it work for fol

Answer 1

I ran into this problem today with svn 1.5.6. svn up --force the_dir_path fixed it for me.

To recreate:

$ svn up
Updated to revision X.
$ rm -rf the_dir_path
$ svn up
D the_dir_path
Updated to revision X.
$ svn up
Updated to revision X.
$ svn up --force the_dir_path
A ....
A ....
Updated to revision X.