On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 10:22:41AM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > Don't forget that it was subversion, not the user, that created the > directory and abandoned it in the first place.
If a previously versioned directory is left behind unversioned, that means there are unversioned (aka obstructing) nodes within the directory, such as files created during a build. Those files could not have been created by svn. I hope that we will eventually extend tree conflict handling to the point where it makes these kinds of situations trivial to resolve, even for novice users. svn should interactively offer a set of reasonable courses of action, such as removing the unversioned nodes, or moving them to a special lost+found area, or something else that allows incoming versioned nodes to be created in their place.
