svn: revision file lacks trailing newline

Question

I wanted to commit a change in a file that is under subversion control:

svn ci some-file -m "some-comment"

but I receive a

svn: Commit failed (details follow):
svn: Revision file lacks trailing newline

from a quick search on the internet, I was unable to find an authorative answer how to proceed in such a case. So, if somebody here is knowledgable, I'd be very grateful.

Edit/Update: The version is:

c:\>svn --version
svn, version 1.6.5 (r38866)
   compiled Sep  1 2009, 13:23:06

and

c:\>svnadmin, version 1.6.5 (r38866)
   compiled Sep  1 2009, 13:23:06

Copyright (C) 2000-2009 CollabNet.
Subversion is open source software, see http://subversion.tigris.org/
This product includes software developed by CollabNet (http://www.Collab.Net/).

The following repository back-end (FS) modules are available:

* fs_fs : Module for working with a plain file (FSFS) repository.

It's possible this is a hook of some kind installed to ensure that everything you check in has a trailing newline. However that's just a guess. — Chris Eberle
I doubt it's a hook since I have been working with this repository and/or project since long and have already done many commits and work with an editor that automatically appends new lines at the end of the (text-) file. — René Nyffenegger

David W. David W. · Accepted Answer · 2011-09-05T00:45:32

This is a repository message. What version of Subversion are you using. This is a very old error that has been fixed long ago.

It took me a while, but I found the fix.

This is a problem in the repository itself and not the client.

svn: revision file lacks trailing newline

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