How to resolve "svn: Can't find a temporary directory: Internal error"?

You also get this error if the disk is full, I discovered.

Free up some space and the error disappears.


Eventually figured a method to do this (as well as getting everything currently unrevisioned under proper version control):

  1. Use the "find" command to strip all of the .svn directories from the broken working copy
  2. Move the working copy to another location
  3. Checkout a new working copy into the original location
  4. Recursively copy the old/stripped working copy into the new one
  5. No more problem

I reckon there must have been some corruption in one of the .svn files for that working copy.

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