If I change the capitalization of a directory name, it seems to cause problems with merging. I'm using SVN 1.6.11 on Mac OS X. I'm not sure if this is relevant, but OS X doesn't support multiple files in the same directory with the same name and different capitalization. Can I report this as a bug? Do you need any more information?
Here's a test case: # create trunk and directory svn mkdir -m "" $REPOS/hello rm -rf hello svn checkout $REPOS/hello hello mkdir hello/test svn add hello/test svn commit -m "" hello # create branch svn copy -m "" $REPOS/hello $REPOS/hello-br # remove the directory, and create a new one with a different capitalization rm -rf hello/test svn rm hello/test svn commit -m "" hello mkdir hello/TEST svn add hello/TEST svn commit -m "" hello # merge trunk into branch rm -rf hello-br svn checkout $REPOS/hello-br hello-br svn merge --accept theirs-full $REPOS/hello hello-br At this point I get an error: svn: Working copy 'hello-br/TEST' locked svn: run 'svn cleanup' to remove locks (type 'svn help cleanup' for details) Running the cleanup command doesn't help. Jacob