David Crossley wrote:
Then Ross rearranged the repository to add the "core" subdirectory
which blew away my changes.

Doh!!!

Sorry!!!

(Strangely enough I am currently writing a presentation on using SVN in Open source, I now have a new bullet point "not foolproof")

Now even though Ross didn't change that
ivy-*.xml file, the build suddenly worked. I wonder if some xml
validation was happening to start and then was switched off in later
commits.

I didn't change anything intentionally.

By the way, if these things are remaining in our local repo
then we need proper license information and replace the "saafe"
ivyauthor.

+1 - as ever anything I commit to SVN is to be considered owned by the community, if I ever miss anything like this it can be changed without my explicit permission, it is implied from the fact I committed it.

I'll do a search and replace when I've finished my presentation slides.

Ross