I have run into this issue with many components from time to time, and
it is really annoying and I've wasted a lot of time on these issues.

On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 8:38 AM, Senaka Fernando <[email protected]> wrote:
> FYI,
>
> svn: Failed to add directory
> 'components/human-task/org.wso2.carbon.human-task.ui': an unversioned
> directory of the same name already exists
>
> This is a nasty issue. The reason for this is that when we have committed
> some fixes, we have completely deleted the
> 'components/human-task/org.wso2.carbon.human-task.ui' directory and checked
> it back again. If you have ever compiled the source at least once, there
> will be an unversioned directory
> 'components/human-task/org.wso2.carbon.human-task.ui/target' which will
> cause the SVN update to fail. This can be really annoying as SVN does not
> have any proper way of determining whether such conflicts may pop up. And,
> if there are several such changes, you might have to simply take a fresh
> checkout.
>
> Therefore, if we are ever going to replace the entire content of some
> bundle, without actually changing the package name, delete
> 'components/human-task/org.wso2.carbon.human-task.ui/src' and restore it
> back again, instead of deleting
> ''components/human-task/org.wso2.carbon.human-task.ui'.
>
> I took Human Task UI as an example, to explain this situation, since it just
> failed for me, but I've run into exactly same issue with several other
> components in the past. So, I HTH.
>
> Thanks,
> Senaka.
>
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