Hello, The situation of the replacement of a directory by a circular symlink generates an XML fragment which is invalid, hence triggers a failure within the calling system. See hereafter the recipe.
Starting from a clean folder, do the following: % svn mkdir 1 A 1 % rmdir 1 % ln -s 1 1 % touch 2 % svn status --xml <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <status> <target path="."> <entry path="1"> <wc-status item="obstructed" revision="-1" props="none"> </wc-status> </entry> svn: E000062: Can't open directory '/Users/dexco/svntest/svn/1': Too many levels of symbolic links % There is a missing end tag for <target> and <status>. Another issue is missing output: path '2' is not listed. The correction of these issues will be much appreciated (i use 1.11.1). Regards, Denis Excoffier.