This happens when submitter capitalizes PDF. The file that is created incorrectly ends in .PDF but the svn command ends in pdf.
• $ svn checkout --depth empty https://svn.apache.org/repos/private/documents/iclas /tmp/d20170510-4903-qckx05/iclas Checked out revision 76572. $ svn status /tmp/d20170510-4903-qckx05/iclas A /tmp/d20170510-4903-qckx05/iclas/dmitry-pavlov.PDF $ svn commit /tmp/d20170510-4903-qckx05/iclas/dmitry-pavlov.pdf -m 'ICLA from Dmitry Pavlov' svn: E200009: Commit failed (details follow): svn: E200009: '/tmp/d20170510-4903-qckx05/iclas/dmitry-pavlov.pdf' is not under version control Craig L Russell Secretary, Apache Software Foundation c...@apache.org http://db.apache.org/jdo