Why would subversion timeout when I try to commit changes to a directory?

Question

When attempting to commit file in the jsunit directory in my working-copy, I waited a really long time and got an error like:

svn: OPTIONS request failed on '/svn_repo/OSB_Project/trunk/OSB/test/web/jsunit'
svn: timed out waiting for server

Why would the server hang at this point?

Running SuSE 10.3 in a VirtualBox where I keep my Subversion server

Answer 1

Okay I solved this one, myself!

I grepped through the files in the subversion (.svn) directory for the phrase "http" only to discover that in the file "entries" the directory itself was still pointing to the non-existent SSL subversion server. I made the file point to the repo on the file system and now it works fine!

Problem solved!