subversion - receiving error "is already a working copy for a different URL"

Your working directory contains .svn subdirectory that points to some repository, use following to take your next step towards resolving your issue: (info, status and resolve):

• svn info - info: Display information about a local or remote item.
• svn status - status (stat, st): Print the status of working copy files and directories.
• svn resolve - resolve: Resolve conflicts on working copy files or directories.

I'm way late to this party, but faced the same problem. I had just migrated from an older svn version to a newer one, and a newer server. The local working directories were still pointing at the old server. The svn relocate command fixed the problem. see:

D:\dev\svn_monitor>svn help relocate
relocate: Relocate the working copy to point to a different repository root URL.
usage: 1. relocate FROM-PREFIX TO-PREFIX [PATH...]
       2. relocate TO-URL [PATH]

  Rewrite working copy URL metadata to reflect a syntactic change only.
  This is used when a repository's root URL changes (such as a scheme
  or hostname change) but your working copy still reflects the same
  directory within the same repository.

  1. FROM-PREFIX and TO-PREFIX are initial substrings of the working
     copy's current and new URLs, respectively.  (You may specify the
     complete old and new URLs if you wish.)  Use 'svn info' to determine
     the current working copy URL.

  2. TO-URL is the (complete) new repository URL to use for PATH.

  Examples:
    svn relocate http:// svn:// project1 project2
    svn relocate http://www.example.com/repo/project \
                 svn://svn.example.com/repo/project

Valid options:
  --ignore-externals       : ignore externals definitions

Global options:
  --username ARG           : specify a username ARG
  --password ARG           : specify a password ARG (caution: on many operating
                             systems, other users will be able to see this)
  --password-from-stdin    : read password from stdin
  --no-auth-cache          : do not cache authentication tokens
  --non-interactive        : do no interactive prompting (default is to prompt
                             only if standard input is a terminal device)
  --force-interactive      : do interactive prompting even if standard input
                             is not a terminal device
  --trust-server-cert      : deprecated; same as
                             --trust-server-cert-failures=unknown-ca
  --trust-server-cert-failures ARG : with --non-interactive, accept SSL server
                             certificates with failures; ARG is comma-separated
                             list of 'unknown-ca' (Unknown Authority),
                             'cn-mismatch' (Hostname mismatch), 'expired'
                             (Expired certificate), 'not-yet-valid' (Not yet
                             valid certificate) and 'other' (all other not
                             separately classified certificate errors).
  --config-dir ARG         : read user configuration files from directory ARG
  --config-option ARG      : set user configuration option in the format:
                                 FILE:SECTION:OPTION=[VALUE]
                             For example:
                                 servers:global:http-library=serf

I faced a similar issue when I delected my local WD and tried to checkout again. Be sure to give the exact path of the SVN directory as there will be other directories with .svn files so it will have a conflict.

This will help for sure:

• Remove all .svn directories from your system (you might want to create a backup)
• Do a new checkout of your repository

You might want to use the following DOS commands to find .svn directories:

cd \
dir /s .svn