Visual Studio and TortoiseSVN
Thursday, February 12th, 2009I’m working on the same VS2005 web site solution on two computers. I deleted some binary directories (bin/obj) that I had accidentally added on one of the computers, and committed my changes.
When I tried to update on the other computer, it didn’t like the fact that I had non-versioned local copies of bin and obj. I deleted them and told TortoiseSVN to clean up, but that kept giving me the error that bin “is not a working copy directory.”
I was staring at Explorer when I saw bin and obj get recreated by VS. I realized that if you delete them, VS recreates these directories, even if you haven’t built anything yet. So you have to close the solution, delete the directories, then cleanup, then update, then re-open the solution in VS.