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TortoiseSvn error: same name as administrative directory

I work with TortoiseSVN. I performed a check in an empty folder. Some files are transferred, but then, at some point, I get the following error:

Error: Failed to add directory "D: \ code \ Website \ ClientBin_svn": object
Error: same name as administrative directory

I tried to delete the folder and check the project on a different directory. This does not work. When I try to test a project on another computer on another computer, it works fine. Any ideas?

Thank vondiplo

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You have a file or folder named "_svn" or ".svn" in your repository. This is a bad idea because your subversion client is already using one of them as a reserved name for storing metadata inside your local working copies.

Open the repository browser, find the file or folder in the repository in the repository and delete (or rename it).

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See if you configured TortoiseSVN to use _svn instead of .svn .

This is a configuration parameter for each installation and, therefore, may differ from one computer to another.

Right-click in the folder, open the TortoiseSVN menu and select "Settings". On the tab with the name "General" at the bottom below should be this flag.

Now I don’t think this is a checkbox, since you say that it is the name “ClientBin_svn”, but that was the first thing that hit me.

The Subversion administrative directory is the hidden .svn directory that is created containing the working copy of svn.

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