Sparse checkout error.

While trying to do a sparse checkout in TortoiseSvn (version TortoiseSVN
1.6.99, Build 21709 - 64 Bit , 2011/07/22 16:21:33) I got the following
error message.

Subversion Exception!

io. Subversion encountered a serious problem. r Please take the time to
report this on the Subversion mailing list (users_at_subversion.apache.org)
with as much information as possible about what you were trying to do.
But please first search the mailing list archives for the error message
to avoid reporting the same problem repeatedly. You can find the mailing
list archives at http://subversion.apache.orgimailing-lists.html

Subversion reported the following:

In file

'D:\ Development\ SVN\TortoiseSVN\ ext\ subversion\ subversion\ libsvn_
wc wc_db.c* line 6617: assertion failed
(svn_dirent_is_absolute(local_abspath))

OK

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Received on 2011-07-27 15:27:12 CEST