title: subversion "out-of-date" question
body: <p>I'm using subversion so that I can have two checkouts, one for testing to make sure things work and another which is public live site.  I made some changes in the test site but also made some updates to a wordpress install.  Now I can't commit the changes on my live site.</p>
  
  <pre><code>[phil@sessions public_html]$ svn commit -m "this time, it's personal"
  svn: Commit failed (details follow):
  svn: Working copy
  '/usr/local/apache/sites/nextadvisor_admin/blog/wp-content/plugins' is
  missing or not locked
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>so I... </p>
  
  <pre><code>[phil@sessions public_html]$svn rm blog/wp-content/plugins --force
  [phil@sessions public_html]$svn rm blog/wp-content/plugins --force
  [phil@sessions public_html]$svn add blog/wp-content/plugins --force
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and all the files got re-added, then I </p>
  
  <pre><code>[phil@sessions public_html]$ svn commit -m "this time really"
  Sending        blog/.htaccess
  Replacing      blog/wp-content
  svn: Commit failed (details follow):
  svn: Out of date: '/trunk/blog/wp-content/plugins' in transaction '186-1'
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Okay so when I look online it tells me to do svn update but I tried that once before and it just erases all my local changes because the "blog/" folder doesn't exist in my test checkout.</p>
  
  <p>My question is, how can I make this commit work without losing the local edits?</p>
  
  <p>Update:</p>
  
  <p>When I run svnupdate, it tells me:</p>
  
  <p>svn: Working copy path 'blog/wp-content/plugins' does not exist in repository</p>