-dev@ list Johan, thanks for your help. See my comments below.
> Can you try if the following helps? $ svn update -r0 offendingdir > Do the '--set-depth empty' trick (or '--set-depth exclude' ?) My bad, I should have mentioned that we had tried that after googling the issue, and before sending the email, unsuccessfully (svn: E155037: Previous operation has not finished; run 'cleanup' if it was interrupted) This is the reason why I believe the local repo is in a non-recoverable state, because any command request a clean up, but a clean up fails. > Even if the above "workaround" does the trick, I still agree with you > that this is a legitimate issue (it would still be very hard to > recover). I think you should file this in the issue tracker [...] OK, I'll wait a couple of days in case someone has more insights... > issue tracker" at tigris.org is still the current one).[...] Good to know! I wasn't aware of this... I'll post it there. Thanks again for the help, Regards,