As the first post in 2012,thought of sharing some confusing error messages which will appear while going to commit on Subversion.This blog-post will continue further as I found more such svn warnings. 1) Aborting commit - has no Ancestry information Eg: .../rootFolder/svnProject$ svn commit . svn: '/path/to/my/rootFolder' has no ancestry information Reason: While SVN checking for folder structure,if some parts of the folder tree above the folder being commited have svn metadata and some do no t,this error will appear. Solution: Check the ancestor folders (especially above the folder reported in the commit failure message) and if you find an .svn/ folder in any of them,remove it. Alternatively, move the folder another location where it has no ancestor folder with .svn/ within it. 2) Aborting commit: remains in tree-conflict Reason: a) A file/directory is locally deleted but exists and is modified in the repository b) A file/directory was locally modified but is deleted i...