title: SVN: What does the status "switched relative to its parent" mean?
body: <p>I'm trying to update our live site from the SVN repository. As far as I know, there's nothing in the repos. itself that should conflict with anything in the working copy dir. But when I try to "svn up" on the public root directory, I get the following error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>svn: REPORT request failed on '/svn/oursite/!svn/vcc/default'
  svn: Working copy path 'app' does not exist in repository
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>When I run "svn status" on the docroot, I see the following:</p>
  
  <pre><code>docroot$ svn st -N
     +S  app
     +S  downloads
     +S  index.php
     (etc.)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>According to the docs, the <code>S</code> flag indicates <code>whether the item is switched relative to its parent</code>. <strong>What does that even mean</strong>, and what can I do to fix this?</p>
  
  <p>EDIT: I should mention that I'm the only one who has worked with the SVN repository. I've been working with it all day, trying to defeat one corruption issue after another as I move things around.</p>
  
  <p><em>(SVN is great, but it sure is fragile... Seems to break if you just glance at it wrong!)</em></p>