svnadmin: 'foo' is a subdirectory of an existing repository rooted at 'foo'

With Subversion 1.5.2 on Mac OS X 10.4.11, trying to create a
repository that already exists gives a slightly confusing message:

$ svn --version | head -n 2
svn, version 1.5.2 (r32768)
    compiled Sep 2 2008, 17:50:51
$ rm -rf foo
$ svnadmin create foo
$ svnadmin create foo
svnadmin: 'foo' is a subdirectory of an existing repository rooted at 'foo'
$

I think the message was clearer with Subversion 1.5.1:

$ svn --version | head -n 2
svn, version 1.5.1 (r32289)
    compiled Jul 31 2008, 05:50:42
$ rm -rf foo
$ svnadmin create foo
$ svnadmin create foo
svnadmin: Repository creation failed
svnadmin: Could not create top-level directory
svnadmin: 'foo' exists and is non-empty
$

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Received on 2008-09-03 21:13:41 CEST