On Mar 6, 2010, at 16:52, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > As someone explained earlier in the thread, a Subversion client recreates the > ~/.subversion > directory when it runs, so something is causing a Subversion client to run.
Oops! Apologies to Alexey for not appreciating the import of what he said on Thursday and thanks to Ryan for the patience in re-highlighting it Which was enough to point me towards the documentation I sought: http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/svn.advanced.confarea.html -- Alan P.S. FYI - "Something is causing the client to run" Yes: my prompt changes the colour of the displayed $PWD depending on svn stat