Hmm, actually I made a mistake. The merge was done through our own gui tool that actually uses svn 1.8.1 command line. Looks like there are a few serf fixes in 1.8.3 but the status entry I found looks very suspicious.
From: Bert Huijben [mailto:b...@qqmail.nl] Sent: 09 September 2013 12:51 To: James French; users@subversion.apache.org Subject: RE: E120104: ra_serf: An error occurred during decompression The current TortoiseSVN is already compiled against serf 1.3 as far as I can tell. (TortoiseSVN uses its own custom build system and this patch just affects the build system) Bert From: James French [mailto:james.fre...@naturalmotion.com] Sent: maandag 9 september 2013 13:15 To: users@subversion.apache.org<mailto:users@subversion.apache.org> Subject: svn: E120104: ra_serf: An error occurred during decompression Hi list, I hit this when doing a reintegrate merge with svn 1.8.3 (tortoisesvn 1.8.2). I repeated the operation with svn 1.7.8 and it did not occur. The following section in the STATUS file looks highly relevant: * ^/subversion/branches/1.8.x-serf-1.3+-windows Allow compiling against serf 1.3 and later on Windows Justification: Serf 1.3 brings a lot of fixes that we need for 1.8.x stability. Notes: The dependency handling on Windows was updated for 1.9+, so this needs a specific backport patch (r1517123) Votes: +1: rhuijben, brane Cheers, James