Subversion people claim this is a problem with apache: http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/ReadMsg?listName=dev&msgNo=139059 Thanks for help!
I don't see anything resembling a bug report here. If you're claiming an apache bug, please tell us what it is, and what's wrong about it.
The problem is described in the linked mailing list item (and its successors). I'll give a brief summary here again: * Subversion uses DAV to implement its functionality in Apache. * When using the svn merge command on a directory, subversion removes any trailing slash (if present) * Apache replies with a 302 redirect to the same URL with a trailing slash * Subversion treats the redirect answer as error I asked subversion to include the trailing slash, however they answered mod_dav does not like trailing slashes. So it seems that mod_dav and some other part in apache don't agree on whether they want the URL with or without trailing slash. Steps to reproduce: * install recent versions of apache and subversion * create a repository and a branch * do an svn merge of a whole subtree (i.e. svn merge -rx:y http://localhost/svn/my_repository/some_directory my_working_copy_directory)
Please try if setting redirect-carefully fixes your problem (http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/env.html#special). BrowserMatch "SVN/1\." redirect-carefully should do the trick.
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