A sane way to rename a directory in subversion working copy

Question

While somehow versed in VCS (regular svn, git and git-svn user) I can\'t seem to wrap my head around this peculiar SVN behavior.

Whenever I need to rename a directory in

Answer 1

This worked for me:

vi someotherfile
...various changes to the other file
svn mv olddir newdir
svn commit -m"Moved olddir out of the way" olddir
svn commit -m"New location of olddir" newdir
svn update
svn commit -m"Changed someotherfile" someotherfile

I suspect that there were various other possible ways round, and that ensuring there was a clean working directory before doing the svn mv would also have done the trick.