Obstructed folders in Subversion

Question

What the heck does \"obstructed\" mean when you try to check into Subversion? I see two folders in red with text status of \"obstructed.\" I don\'t see what this means anywh

Answer 1

This means that, for some reason, a conflict has occurred during the operation. Check to see if there is an existing unversioned file or folder with the same name as a versioned one.

(Paraphrased from the Tortoise SVN client help file)

Answer 2

We often have multiple branches on the go at the same time, in order to save me switching or messing around with IIS configuration I check each branch out to a separate folder. I then use directory linking to connect those folders back to the main path configured in IIS.

So for me the linked directory always has a yellow exclamation and is marked as obstructed. I believe this is because it was technically created/moved outside of SVN.

Answer 3

it occurs when you have deleted or moved the .svn subdirectories (without going through SVN commands), so SVN has a corrupted view of the working copy.

Try a cleanup first, and if that doesn't solve it, revert (or update) the directory to restore the subdirectory .svn folders.

Answer 4

Faced this issue on a Windows machine.

I had checked out the directory before I checked out the entire project it belonged to. It caused the 'obstructed' issue for me.

I simply deleted that folder and ran an update from root (of that folder). It worked fine.

Commands like cleanup etc. did not work for me.

Some word of caution:

1. This is costly if the folder is large.
2. It will cause you to lose all your changes if there are any.

All the best.

Answer 5

I ran into this in Eclipse where some files were marked with a red exclamation point. The problem was a stray .svn folder in the source directory. I deleted the .svn folder, refreshed eclipse, and was able to check in the files.

Answer 6

If you're on a *nix system, ensure that you didn't create a file, add it to SVN, then delete it, replacing it with a folder of the same name. Doesn't help OP, but hopefully it'll save someone a bunch of stress.