When trying to commit a child of a deleted node, svn commit says nothing and just exists with status zero.
This surprised me, because it complains loudly about committing children of copies (see http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2011-07/0773.shtml). Shouldn't we raise some sort of error for the delete case, too? Script: [[[ #!/bin/sh set -e cwd=`pwd` basename=`basename $0` scratch_area="`echo $basename | sed -e s/\.sh$//`" repos=$scratch_area/repos trunk=$scratch_area/trunk branch=$scratch_area/branch trunk_url=file:///$cwd/$repos/trunk branch_url=file:///$cwd/$repos/branch set -x rm -rf $scratch_area mkdir -p $scratch_area mkdir -p $trunk mkdir $trunk/epsilon echo zeta > $trunk/epsilon/zeta svnadmin create $cwd/$repos svn import $trunk $trunk_url -m "importing project tree" rm -r $trunk svn checkout $trunk_url $trunk svn rm $trunk/epsilon svn st $trunk svn ci -mm $trunk/epsilon/zeta echo $? ]]] This is the output: $ ./bug.sh + rm -rf bug + mkdir -p bug + mkdir -p bug/trunk + mkdir bug/trunk/epsilon + echo zeta + > bug/trunk/epsilon/zeta + svnadmin create /tmp/bug/repos + svn import bug/trunk file:////tmp/bug/repos/trunk -m importing project tree Adding bug/trunk/epsilon Adding bug/trunk/epsilon/zeta Committed revision 1. + rm -r bug/trunk + svn checkout file:////tmp/bug/repos/trunk bug/trunk A bug/trunk/epsilon A bug/trunk/epsilon/zeta Checked out revision 1. + svn rm bug/trunk/epsilon D bug/trunk/epsilon D bug/trunk/epsilon/zeta + svn st bug/trunk D bug/trunk/epsilon D bug/trunk/epsilon/zeta + svn ci -mm bug/trunk/epsilon/zeta + echo 0 0

