How to fix “containing working copy admin area is missing” in SVN?

Question

I deleted manually a directory I just added, offline, in my repository. I can\'t restore the directory.

Any attempt to do an update or a commit will fail with:

Answer 1

fwiw, I had a similar situation and used svn --force delete __dir__. That solved the issue for me. Then i continued working with my working copy as normal.