Bug#338403: subversion: temporary error when renaming directories

[Charles Fry]

Package: subversion
Version: 1.2.3dfsg1-2
Severity: normal

Twice when using svn to rename directories that contained files the
initial commit failed, claiming that the old directory was out of date.
I ran 'svn update' and nothing changed, but the commit then worked. I
ignored it the first time, but then it happened again immediately
thereafter.

Here is the rought test case:

% svn mv one two
# where one is a directory containing files that were checked in
% svn commit
...
svn: Commit failed (details follow):
svn: Item '/one' is out of date
% svn up
At revision 56.
% svn commit
...
Transmitting file data .......
Committed revision 57.
%


Charles

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (800, 'stable'), (70, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-386
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages subversion depends on:
ii  db4.2-util                 4.2.52-19     Berkeley v4.2 Database Utilities
ii  libapr0                    2.0.54-5      the Apache Portable Runtime
ii  libc6                      2.3.5-6       GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libdb4.2                   4.2.52-19     Berkeley v4.2 Database Libraries [
ii  libexpat1                  1.95.8-3      XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii  libldap2                   2.1.30-12     OpenLDAP libraries
ii  libneon24                  0.24.7.dfsg-2 An HTTP and WebDAV client library
ii  libssl0.9.8                0.9.8a-3      SSL shared libraries
ii  libsvn0                    1.2.3dfsg1-2  shared libraries used by Subversio
ii  libxml2                    2.6.22-1      GNOME XML library
ii  patch                      2.5.9-2       Apply a diff file to an original
ii  zlib1g                     1:1.2.3-4     compression library - runtime

subversion recommends no packages.

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