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I just applied the Mac OSX 10.4.6 update, hoping that it would solve my problems viz a viz committing changes to an SMB-based subversion repository. Alas, I still have the same trouble with svn commit. In addition, the new update undid scplugin’s changes to Finder which indicate a file’s svn status (e.g. current, newer working copy, etc). I guess that’s not such a big deal, since the svn status is useless without the ability to commit my changes.

Version 1.3.1 of svn came out a day or two ago, so let’s see if that does the trick.
Downloading Mac binary svn client v1.3.1…
Installing…
Testing…


515$ svn –version
svn, version 1.3.1 (r19032)
compiled Apr 4 2006, 00:30:54

Copyright (C) 2000-2006 CollabNet.
Subversion is open source software, see http://subversion.tigris.org/
This product includes software developed by CollabNet (http://www.Collab.Net/).

The following repository access (RA) modules are available:

* ra_dav : Module for accessing a repository via WebDAV (DeltaV) protocol.
- handles ‘http’ scheme
- handles ‘https’ scheme
* ra_svn : Module for accessing a repository using the svn network protocol.
- handles ’svn’ scheme
* ra_local : Module for accessing a repository on local disk.
- handles ‘file’ scheme

516$ svn commit -m ‘Changed script to be user-independent’ my_script
subversion/libsvn_client/commit.c:873: (apr_err=5)
svn: Commit failed (details follow):
subversion/libsvn_subr/io.c:2199: (apr_err=5)
svn: Can’t write to file ‘/Volumes/svn/grading_system/db/transactions/4-7.txn/rev’: Input/output error


ARRRRRGH!

Oh well, I guess it’s time to try the (old) patch for SMB access, which means building Subversion from source. Darwin ports collection, here I come!