[news.eclipse.technology.subversive] Re: directory conflict because of s

[afer@xxxxxxxxxxxx (andrea ferrandi)]

andrea ferrandi wrote:

> When I try to commit the changes of the top directory of my project in 
> Eclipse to its sourceforge subversion repository, I get this error:

> Merge conflict during commit
> svn: Commit failed (details follow):
> svn: File or directory '.' is out of date; try updating
> svn: resource out of date; try updating.

> Checking on the internet I've found some articles that was mentioning the 
> svn:ignore property of the directory as the cause of the problem.
> Actually svn:ignore turns out to be different (older) on the sourceforge 
> repository.
> But the proposed solution, to update the directory before commiting, does 
> not work.
> Now the same problem happened also to other projects, after I had to 
> change the content of the svn:ignore property to avoid that other files 
> are sent to the repository, and to subdirectories of the original project; 
> so avoiding to commit the top directory is not a good solution anymore.

> I tried everything:
> It is not possible to send the changes of the svn:property to the 
> repository, cleaning does help.

> Is there a solution to the problem that is not dangerous for the integrity 
> of the subversion repository?

> Thanks!
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