"Subversion encountered a serious problem"

I'm not subscribed and unfortunately don't have the access to the server to really diagnose this but wanted to drop it off in case it's of use in tracking down any issues.

I updated to TortoiseSVN 1.8.7 yesterday from 1.8.5. I think that corresponds to an SVN bump of 1.8.6 to 1.8.8.

I did a switch today of this codebase that I'm often off working in my own branch, from the "trunk" into my dev line. Apparently at some point in the not so distant past (recent enough that I may never have hit this before), one of the subtrees changed from an extern to non-extern, whatever the vernacular may be.

I see this:

    Subversion encountered a serious problem.
    Please take the time to report this on the Subversion mailing list 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.org/mailing-lists.html

    Subversion reported the following

    In file
     'D:\Development\SVN\Releases\TortoiseSVN-1.8.7\ext\subversion\subversion\libsvn_wc\update_editor.c'
     line 1550: assertion failed (action == svn_wc_conflict_action_delete)

What I'm left with is the directory has a complete folder structure but no files. And then when I try to update the directory I get "Error: The XML response contains invalid XML". If I delete the directory and svn update it on the command line, I get the same error (E130003, fwiw).

It seems like the switch is complete but now I can't update because I just get that invalid XML error. I can switch back; I get a similar dialog box (with the assertion failure) but there doesn't appear to be a fix via Tortoise to that; it tells me to run cleanup for any operation I try. If I delete the offending folder and update it from the command line, however, it works and I'm good to go. I just can't work on my branch. :)

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Received on 2014-06-06 07:33:21 CEST