Yesterday I had to commit a project to a fresh and new repository on a Subversion server (VisualSVN Server). So I checked out an (empty) working copy, inserted the files, and committed. The files were added, but immediately after that, TortoiseSVN complained: commit failed (details follow): access to ‘/svn/(RepoName)/!svn/act/(someguid)’ forbidden.’ Errr… what? So I verified…