SVN: Colleague checked in a folder into repository, but I can't Update my version to it

Question

In showing a colleague how to use SVN yesterday, we created a test folder and file within our existing Visual Studio Solution. We'll call it "Test" folder with two files, "Test.ascx" and "Test.ascx.cs". We added it (or Visual SVN added it, 'cos it's awesome), and committed it. We also added and committed other files elsewhere in the project.

We can see it in the repository (and the other files).

Doing an update on my own machine to pull down these new files resulted in the other files being pulled down correctly, BUT the Test folder does not appear. No matter how many times I try Updating from various points in VS and in TortoiseSVN (urgh) Repo browser, it can't see that there are any changes to pull down.

Where am I going wrong?

Answer 1

This is a known problem.

You can use

$ svn update --depth=infinity

to force the update. With TortoiseSVN, use the "Update to revision" command in the Submenu, then change the depth combobox to "fully recursive".

Answer 2

I've had ghost errors like this before and found the easiest work around is to delete the parent folder and update it's parent:

Project Root
    Project
        NewFolder

Delete Project, then Update Project Root