https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/contrib/client-side/svnmerge/svnmerge.py
contains this function: def is_wc(dir): """Check if a directory is a working copy.""" return os.path.isdir(os.path.join(dir, ".svn")) or \ os.path.isdir(os.path.join(dir, "_svn")) which needs to be updated somehow for 1.7 working copies. (Making it unconditionally return True seems to be a semi-adequate workaround.)