Finder treats folder as application

Mac OS 10.8.5 / MacBook Pro (less than 1 year old)
I checked out some software using SVN. One of the folder/directory names is foo.app and another is bar.workflow.
The finder shows foo.app as an application and bar.workflow as a workflow (Automater) file. I can
cd into these folders in the terminal and ls -F shows them as directories. I checked them with GetFileInfo
and it shows that they are folders. I tried Get Info to see if I could change "open with" but neither show
that option. I used Onyx to do some cleanup/repair and restarted but the problem persists. I even
tried deleting the files and doing an SVN update.
Any suggestions on how to fix this?
TIA
-- Sam

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