Spurious missing/modified files in fresh wc

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sean@tahaze-linux02:~> svn --version
svn, version 1.3.0 (r17949)
   compiled Jan  2 2006, 12:00:05
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... (etc.)
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sean_at_tahaze-linux02:~> svn co https://svn.thcg.net/iDeal/branches/imaging/qc
A    qc/iDealDAL
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... (many more additions)
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A    qc/iDealTest/TestDeal.cs
A    qc/iDealTest/TestDateTimeBox.cs
 U   qc
Checked out revision 5104.
sean@tahaze-linux02:~> cd qc
sean@tahaze-linux02:~/qc> svn diff
sean@tahaze-linux02:~/qc> svn status
?      T8
 M     .
!      iDealDAL
!      fitnesse
!      iDealWebServices
!      iDealFit
!M     iDealDAL.Data.vsd
!      DefensiveDatasource
!M     iDealDaL.Business.vsd
!M     Misc-Reports.sql
!M     run-subwcrev.bat
!      THCG.MKG.Sales
!M     iDeal.sln
!      iDeal Web
!M     ideal.build
!      iDealTest
sean@tahaze-linux02:~/qc>
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The diff looks reasonable to me, but what's with the status?
If I commit I get an empty revision in my repository.
I don't know if this is relevant, but I first noticed that something strange
was happening when I tried to perform a merge in a clean working copy:
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$ svn merge fitnesse_at_head https://svn.thcg.net/iDeal/trunk/fitnesse@HEAD
fitnesse
D  fitnesse/232-20060106145555.zip
D  fitnesse/306-20060106145555.zip
A  fitnesse/208-20060106143854.zip
A  fitnesse/284-20060106152058.zip
A  fitnesse/WikiWatcher.build
D         fitnesse/RequestedEffectiveDate/236-20060106145555.zip
D         fitnesse/RequestedEffectiveDate/276-20060106150448.zip
D         fitnesse/RequestedEffectiveDate/279-20060106150619.zip
D         fitnesse/RequestedEffectiveDate/272-20060106150351.zip
D         fitnesse/RequestedEffectiveDate/270-20060106145702.zip
D         fitnesse/RequestedEffectiveDate/content.txt
D         fitnesse/RequestedEffectiveDate/231-20060106145555.zip
D         fitnesse/RequestedEffectiveDate/274-20060106150444.zip
D         fitnesse/RequestedEffectiveDate/278-20060106150611.zip
D         fitnesse/RequestedEffectiveDate/properties.xml
D         fitnesse/RequestedEffectiveDate
D  fitnesse/RequestedEffectiveDate
svn: Revision 8 doesn't match existing revision 5101 in
'fitnesse/RequestedEffectiveDate'
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This took place on a Windows machine using svn 1.1.1 under Cygwin. This led
me to the experiment shown above, which I repeated not only on cygwin svn
1.1.1 but also on a GNU/Linux system running subversion 1.3.0. Whereupon I
became paranoid about my repository. The repository, by the way, is 1.3.0
fsfs running on that same GNU/Linux machine (tahaze-linux02).
Any comments?
Thanks,
Sean Foy
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