Hi Jay, > Is there anything that can be done at the server end to fix this, or > at my end to work around it (without having to keep cd'ing into > subdirectories)? I use the following from a script: find . -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -type d -name .svn -prune -o -type d -exec svn update \{\} \; Ciao, Duncan.