subversion commit & or add status

Question

when I go into my working directory to see if svn has picked up my changes this is what I get:

demetrius-fords-macbook-pro-53:www demet8$ svn status
?       portals/10091

It appears svn has picked it up? but when I go into the actual file to be committed I get this msg:

demetrius-fords-macbook-pro-53:10091 demet8$ ls -la

total 16
drwxr-xr-x   5 demet8  staff   170 Feb 18 10:05 .
drwxr-xr-x  64 demet8  staff  2176 Feb 18 18:08 ..
-rw-r--r--@  1 demet8  staff  6148 Feb 18 18:11 .DS_Store
drwxr-xr-x   6 demet8  staff   204 Feb 18 10:31 6866
drwxr-xr-x   2 demet8  staff    68 Feb 18 10:05 logs

demetrius-fords-macbook-pro-53:6866 demet8$ svn add 6866
svn: '.' is not a working copy

*The two files im actually trying to commit are 6866. Being that I tried to commit 6866 & it failed, I tried to commit to files inside 6866 and I get this msg:

demet8$ svn add payment.tpl payment_return.php
svn: '.' is not a working copy

What could I be possibly be doing wrong?

Answer 1

From what you just showed us, you are not working in a checkout. You have to actually check out the code to be in a working copy , like the error message is complaining about.

You need to actually do, for example, svn co svn://my.svn.repo/my/code/trunk and do any modifications in there.

Edit:

I didn't address the first part of your question. The ? doesn't mean that it picked the change up. It means that it has no idea what it is. From the documentation:

'?' item is not under version control