Comment 12 for bug 219832

OK, it looks like my repo had a commit in which a symlink was changed to a file in one step. When I tried to reproduce this on a new repository, I get

$ svn commit -m "change symlink to regular file"
svn: Commit failed (details follow):
svn: Entry '/home/astraw/src/symlink/hi-link' has unexpectedly changed special status

So, it looks like there was a bug in whatever version of svn allowed this commit to happen and the svn repo itself is broken.

I'll attempt to workaround the issue by re-building the svn repository without symlinks.

Thanks for the slueth work.