Hi, I'm using svn 1.8.8 (Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS), so this may be already fixed...
If a patch contains new files in new sub directories, applying this patch fails. $ export LANG=C $ export LC_MESSAGES=C $ svn help | head -n 2 usage: svn <subcommand> [options] [args] Subversion command-line client, version 1.8.8. $ head -n 5 patch Index: pt_BR/reference/pdo/pdo/getattribute.xml --- pt_BR/reference/pdo/pdo/getattribute.xml +++ pt_BR/reference/pdo/pdo/getattribute.xml @@ -0,0 +1,136 @@ +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> $ ls -lahr pt_BR/reference/pdo/ total 16K -rw-rw-r-- 1 andre andre 1.5K Apr 24 20:57 ini.xml drwxrwxr-x 2 andre andre 4.0K Apr 24 20:57 functions drwxrwxr-x 90 andre andre 4.0K Apr 24 20:57 .. drwxrwxr-x 3 andre andre 4.0K Apr 24 20:57 . $ svn info pt_BR/reference/pdo/ | grep si URL: https://svn.php.net/repository/phpdoc/pt_BR/trunk/reference/pdo Repository Root: https://svn.php.net/repository Repository UUID: c90b9560-bf6c-de11-be94-00142212c4b1 Revision: 339092 $ svn status pt_BR/ $ svn patch patch svn: E155005: No write-lock in '/home/andre/phpdoc/pt_BR/reference/pdo' $ svn status pt_BR/ ? pt_BR/reference/pdo/pdo $ svn patch patch Skipped missing target: 'pt_BR/reference/pdo/pdo/getattribute.xml' Skipped missing target: 'pt_BR/reference/pdo/pdo/getavailabledrivers.xml' Summary of conflicts: Skipped paths: 2 $ svn status pt_BR/ ? pt_BR/reference/pdo/pdo $ André