svn+apache per directory access control: weird permissions issue (403 Forbidden error)
Turns out this is a long standing bug in the subversion client. Here's the bug report:
http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3242
It will probably get fixed in the next major release - 1.7In the meantime, here's a hack workaround:
http://subversion.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=462&dsMessageId=2357123
I copied the 'if' statement into the source code for mod_authz_svn.c and rebuilt svn and it works now :)
Here is also workaround I've found in the bug discussion. If you have problems with updating local copy try to switch local copy to the same URL.