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

One could think of a scenario where the directory has been changed in the repository by an other user. Renaming the same folder in your working copy may trigger tree conflicts during commit.

Resolving conflicts shows how to resolve 'tree conflicts' in subversion.