On Mar 5, 2010, at 09:21, Alan Brogan wrote: > There is no subversion server on those machines, they are used as subversion > clients only, so > No - subversion was not running at the time
A Subversion server process would never do anything with ~/.subversion; only a Subversion client would. > If subversion has no such special logic how come it happens > on three different machines, on 9 different OSes ? > And on all of them happens *only* in the directory ~/.subversion ? As someone explained earlier in the thread, a Subversion client recreates the ~/.subversion directory when it runs, so something is causing a Subversion client to run. The only explanation I can think of is that on all three machines, something you've done is causing a Subversion client to run. A Subversion client does not have any kind of persistent process that stays running, so nothing in Subversion is designed to have the behavior you observe.
