There's been a bunch of work on trunk recently on recognizing this difference --- a successful commit with a failure somewhere during the so-called "post-commit FS processing". I believe most of it is nominated for 1.6.16 --- could you please try that (once it's released) before filing a bug?
Also: see issue #3641. Thanks! Daniel Mark Keisler wrote on Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 16:38:50 -0600: > I got this error on a commit because the rep-cache.db file in the > repository had the wrong mode: > .... > Transmitting file data > ................................................................ > ....................................................................................... > ....................................................................................... > ....................................................................................... > ....................................................................................... > ....................................................................................... > ....................................................................................... > ............................svn: Commit failed (details follow): > svn: attempt to write a readonly database > svn: attempt to write a readonly database > > Clearly, it says the commit failed. So I fixed the permissions in the > repository and tried the commit again: > .... > svn: Commit failed (details follow): > svn: File already exists: filesystem '/svnroot/myrepo/db', transaction > '5323-43v', path '/blah/blah/blah' > > > So I seem to be stuck. I run svn update in my working copy and > nothing seems to happen. svn status still shows all my added files > staged and ready to be committed. the commit did not fail correctly. > So, what do I do to get out of this besides dumping up to right before > the current rev and reloading the repository? Also, is this a known > issue or shall I file a bug? > > Subversion command-line client, version 1.6.15. > server is running 1.6.13, both are Linux. > > -- > Mark
