"File already exists" when it obviously doesn't

Hi all.

I'm getting this weird issue when trying to merge a local copy of some code
with the upstream vendor changes. The merge itself apparently went well and
when I go "svn status" my local copy is in what seems to be a consistent
state.

Problem is when I try to commit, I get the following:

svn: File already exists: filesystem '/var/svn/repos/db',
transaction '3369-1', path '/...'

The path it prints in there definitely doesn't contain the file. In fact the
entire directory it's in wasn't there in the current HEAD version.

This seems like a bug to me. I'm about to work around it by moving all adds
to a separate patch file and committing it without them and then adding them
in the second pass, which presumably will work fine but doing this should not
be necessary (whatever happened to the whole idea of committing all changes
in a single pass?)

Our server is on 1.3.1 (latest under Ubuntu) and the client is on 1.4.5
(latest under Cygwin.)

Daniel

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Received on Tue Dec 11 23:16:01 2007