Looking a issue 3993, a serf/googlecode oddity http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3993 leads me to this code in libsvn_wc/update_editor.c:close_edit
/* The editor didn't even open the root; we have to take care of some cleanup stuffs. */ if (! eb->root_opened && *eb->target_basename == '\0') { /* We need to "un-incomplete" the root directory. */ SVN_ERR(svn_wc__db_temp_op_end_directory_update(eb->db, eb->anchor_abspath, scratch_pool)); } That's WCNG code, but the concept has been present since 1.0. The "un-incomplete" state is presence=normal in WCNG terms. Why do we do that? If we don't call open_root and the directory is incomplete then it must have been incomplete before the update started. Is it correct for a drive that doesn't call open_root to change such a directory to normal? I think leaving the directory incomplete is the correct action. -- uberSVN: Apache Subversion Made Easy http://www.uberSVN.com