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Subversion (svn) error: “containing working copy admin area is missing”

Accidentally tried to add a folder to an svn repository with files that were already added to another svn repo. This caused some confusion for subversion and I got the error message: containing working copy admin area is missing This SO question saved me: The solution is to do: svn –force delete _dir_ On the […]

Subversion and dav using https: Method PROPFIND is not defined

The following error message can occur when trying to use subversion on an apache2 server over https and dav: 501 Method PROPFIND is not defined in RFC 2068 and is not supported by the Servlet API. The error message is quite misleading. It can be caused by a simple misspelling of the server. In my […]