svn copy: Why different changes depending on various circumstances

Hi, just to give everyone a bit of context: We write [internal] software for our company and have two sites worldwide, one site speaks English the other Spanish. We are speak English so we develop all our software in English and then a third party translates it into Spanish. Managing the updates to the source code and knowing which files require [re]translation is virtually impossible with our current system. As such I started looking into recording changes to localizable files as part of a post-commit hook in Subversion. My idea was to have the post-commit hook send the changes to a, custom built, command-line tool that stores the changes in a database backend and notifies developers, via e-mail, when changes are made to localizable content.

I got a prototype up and running that uses the output from "svnlook changed REPO_PATH -r ? --copy-info" during the post-commit hook. This all works great except for one small problem.

It all revolves around "svn copy WC WC" and the consequent output from svnlook. I'm running svn client 1.5.5 on Windows Vista and svnserve 1.5.5 on a Windows Server 2003 machine with a FSFS repository.

I have a repository like this, bear in mind this a SandPit repository.

Repository URL: Svn://svn_server/SandPit/

Tree:-

CopyProblem/
CopyProblem/Folder1/
CopyProblem/Folder1/File1.txt
CopyProblem/Folder2/SourceFile.txt <-- Copy of CopyProblem/SourceFile.txt
CopyProblem/Folder3/
CopyProblem/SourceFile.txt

I've checked the tree to a working copy on my local machine and am in the root folder of that WC.
Now if I issue the commands:
    svn copy Folder1 Folder3/Folder1
    svn commit . -m ""

The 'svnlook changed repo_path -r rev --copy-info' output is:
A + CopyProblem/Folder3/Folder1/
    (from CopyProblem/Folder1/:r160)

Seems okay, no problem. Now try:
    svn copy Folder2 Folder3/Folder2
    svn commit . -m ""

svnlook output:
A + CopyProblem/Folder3/Folder2/
    (from CopyProblem/Folder2/:r160)
A + CopyProblem/Folder3/Folder2/SourceFile.txt
    (from CopyProblem/Folder2/SourceFile.txt:r162)

This time it also copied the file, but I thought the file would have been copied as part of the directory copy?
Okay, now I add a new file to Folder2 using:
    dir >Folder2\File2.txt
    svn add Folder2\File2.txt
    svn commit . -m ""

So Folder2 has a copied file (SourceFile.txt) and a new file (File2.txt) in it. Now try:
    svn copy Folder2 Folder1/Folder2
    svn commit . -m ""

svnlook output:
A + CopyProblem/Folder1/Folder2/
    (from CopyProblem/Folder2/:r160)
A + CopyProblem/Folder1/Folder2/File2.txt
    (from CopyProblem/Folder2/File2.txt:r165)
A + CopyProblem/Folder1/Folder2/SourceFile.txt
    (from CopyProblem/Folder2/SourceFile.txt:r162)

Now I'm confused, the first copy only copied the directory. The second copied the directory and the file, which I assumed was because the file was, itself, a copy. But then the third copies the directory and both files, one that is a copy one that isn't. Can someone explain the reason the svnlook output, for what seem to be the same operations, is so different?

Thanks,
Keith Moore.
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