Initial mail from Geoff Rowell is here. http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2009-07/0191.shtml
He said: - Subversion 1.6.3 on Windows When recursively deleting a property from a working copy, an unnecessary warning is thrown because the property isn't defined on the root working copy folder. svn pd my:property /my/wc -R property ' my:property ' deleted from '/my/wc/subfolder' . svn: Attempting to delete nonexistent property 'my:property' --- I just checked with 1.7 version on linux and I get the following. noorul@noorul:/tmp/wc/repos1$ tree . `-- A `-- B `-- lambda 2 directories, 1 file noorul@noorul:/tmp/wc/repos1$ ~/projects/subversion/builds/trunk/bin/svn pd my:property -R Attempting to delete nonexistent property 'my:property' on '.' Attempting to delete nonexistent property 'my:property' on 'A' Attempting to delete nonexistent property 'my:property' on 'A/B' Attempting to delete nonexistent property 'my:property' on 'A/B/lambda' I think this output is noisy. Posting this again since the initial thread did not get any attention. Thanks and Regards Noorul