On Thu, Dec 09, 2021 at 01:04:24PM -0600, Luke Mauldin wrote: > Did this problematic commit occur due to a bug at the time in Subversion or a > user error? > > Luke
The log message suggests it was a deliberate choice, and there was some discussion about it after the fact. See https://svn.apache.org/r1295006 and https://marc.info/?t=139866097800008&r=1&w=2 Anyway, since this code lives in the ASF repository there was nothing that could be done to undo the copy without impacting every ASF project.