It looks like you deleted the target directories, but you didn't do an "svn update". I can see that because "svn status" is putting "!" in front of the target directories.
Your next step is to do an "svn update" which will recreate the "target" directories, but as directories Subversion is tracking (they'll have the .svn directory in them. Once that is done, you should simply see files with "?" in front of them and no more "!" or "~". Then, you should be able to commit -- at least from the command line via "svn commit". Once you've done the commit, we have your working directory and the Subversion server more or less in agreement. We can finally clean up the rest of the mess: *STEP #1*: Using the "svn delete" command from the command line, delete the target directories. That will remove them from the Subversion repository. You can never, ever have Maven "target" directories in your Subversion repository. This confuses the heck out of Subversion. *STEP #2*: Once you've removed these target directories, do another "svn commit". Those "target" directories are no longer in your Subversion repository. *STEP #3*: Once we've cleaned up the "target" directory mess, you can take care of all those directories in your "svn status" that show a "?". These directories look like source directories, but aren't in your Subversion repository. If you need them in Subversion, use an "svn add" to add them in. *STEP #4*: Do another "svn status". You shouldn't be getting any lines that start with "~" or "!" or "?". The only lines you should be getting start with "A" which means you've added the missing directories to your Subversion repository. *STEP #5*: Do another "svn commit". You've at last cleaned everything up. All "target" directories that caused problems are now gone. All missing source directories and files are now in Subversion. In theory, someone should now be able to checkout the project and do a build. *OPTIONAL, BUT HIGHLY RECOMMENDED STEP #6*: Now that everything is cleaned up, it'll be nice if we could keep it this way. There are two things you can do: 1. Add the property "svn:ignore=target" to the directories where "target" directories are built. This will help prevent someone from accidentally adding these "target" directories back into your Subversion repository. They won't show up as new, but missing Subversion elements in status reports, and if you do a massive add, they won't get added. It is still possible for someone to purposefully add them back into your Subversion repository. 2. If you have such a pre-commit trigger, set it so you can't add directories called "target" to your Subversion repository. Once you've completed all of these steps, I recommend that you delete the project in Eclipse and recheck it out, and make sure you can build it and everything works. -- David Weintraub qazw...@gmail.com
