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I'm working on a client's site. We had the sites folder as the root of a SVN repository. At some point we ran drush to do module/core updates but Drush was (mistakenly) set to ignore the repository.

Now we have a lot of folders (mostly modules) that have the tilde SVN status. For example, here's five actual folders:

~       all/modules/webform
~       all/modules/password_policy
~       all/modules/views
~       all/modules/services
~       all/modules/pathauto

We've spent time reading about how one addresses the tilde status in a general sense. There's a Stack Overflow question on it. It's pretty clear that Drush deleted these folders that had .svn folders in them and replaced them with new ones. These new untracked folders have the same name, so the parent folder's .svn index is confused. In essence, we can't run update because there's something already there taking up the name we need.

What's the best practice?

  1. Delete the untracked folders, run svn update, try to use Drush to update again with proper configuration. Edit: Since there are hundreds of nested folders, a bash script would be nice.
  2. Somehow force a commit of these new files? If that's possible, how to do it? (Note: in this sort of overwhelming situation we would be okay with the revisions on those modules breaking as long as we can commit again)
  3. Other?

Note: This is more of an SVN question than a Drupal question, but it's a direct effect of Drush. I assumed Drush-savvy users have bumped into this sort of thing before. Also, I want to know how I can solve the issues without making my client's site crumble.

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    When running in to the same issue I find it easiest to do option 1.
    – Bart
    Apr 17, 2013 at 15:39
  • I think this is a good question for DA.
    – mpdonadio
    Apr 17, 2013 at 16:17
  • @Bart even if there are hundreds of nested folders? I would honestly prefer option 2, but I can't find a way to do it. Maybe a script would help.. Apr 18, 2013 at 14:19
  • I just do rm -R folder and then svn update, svn sorts out the rest (restores everything from svn, including subfolders).
    – Bart
    Apr 18, 2013 at 14:24
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    How "drush was (mistakenly) set to ignore the repository"? Did you force --version-control=backup? if so, the .svn folders are in some place at ~/drush-backups and you could bring them back with rsync
    – jonhattan
    Apr 18, 2013 at 19:58

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