Can't get SVN update to resolve conflict on Linux Server

Question

I am using SVN update to update my web directory on my linux server. when I do an sudo svn update it says theres a conflict. i choose the accept theirs full option which Im assuming it should pull the full repo file but it never seems to replace the file. SVN reports update status G but the file remains the same.

what is going on, how do i get the depot version. This is on a server so there should never be a modified file or conflict to begin with.

Answer 1

Revert all local modifications (and conflicts) after update:

svn revert -R <path>

Be careful, it wipe all your local changes

Answer 2

It turns out what I was doing was correct, but their was an old cron job I wasn't aware of that was updating the file on the server outside of SVN. So everytime I committed a change it was overwritten by a cron job kicking off an rsynch.