Minor problem extracting from SVN repository

I've tried to retrieve the source for an Apache incubator project from an
SVN repository using the following command.

E:> svn checkout http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/tuscany/cpp

When I do this for the first time, (ie extracting into an empty directory) I
get what looks like a failure

svn: REPORT request failed on '/repos/asf/!svn/vcc/default'
svn: REPORT of '/repos/asf/!svn/vcc/default': 200 OK ( http://svn.apache.org
)

However, if I then issue the exact same command again, the extract works
without a problem and lots of files get fetched.

I'm using svn V1.3.0 and I've also tried TortoiseSVN 1.3.3 - which gives
essentially the same behaviour, failing on this first attempt but then
succeeding on the second attempt. Obviously I have a workaround, but it
feels to me that I'm failing to do some setup step before attempting the
checkout - but I can't see what that is.

Thanks in advance,

Geoff.
Received on Fri Apr 28 15:19:16 2006