Major A simplified version of a bug reported by "Michael Grundberg" <michaelgrundberg@hotmail.com> #!/bin/bash REPO=file://`pwd`/repo rm -rf repo wc svnadmin create repo svn mkdir $REPO/foo -m "" svn mkdir $REPO/foo/bar -m "" svn co -r1 $REPO wc touch wc/foo/bar svn up wc # step A rm wc/foo/bar svn up wc/foo # step B Step A fails as expected with an "obstructed update" error. The bug is that step B fails with ../svn/subversion/libsvn_wc/update_editor.c:994: (apr_err=155000) svn: Obstructed update svn: failed to add directory 'wc/foo': object of the same name already exists even though "svn up wc" completes without error. Step A is necessary to see the bug, it results in wc/foo being marked incomplete.