Subversion misses new directories during update

Question

I\'m using SVN 1.6.3 and TortoiseSVN 1.6.6. Periodically when I do an update from the root of my project, SVN fails to pickup a newly added directory (added by a co-worker)

Answer 1

We are seeing a situation where a previous merge causes a tree conflict and then particular directories do not update at all but do not throw an error message either on update. In fact, once it occurs, we can't seem to find any programmatic way of detecting the situation. The tree conflict does not show up when checking for modification and the only way we knew we had a problem was by manually comparing the files to the repo-browser and logs. Only by deduction did we figure out that it had something to do with a tree conflict.

We had to remove the original directory and re-checkout. And we have found no programmatic way of detecting when this occurs. It is infrequent but has reproduced itself a handful of times.

Terribly sparse info, I know.