svn error: node conflict in /usr/ports/x11/xcb-proto/files

[Thomas Mueller]

On this computer, I can't get /usr/ports/x11/xcb-proto/files: 

Skipped 'files' -- Node remains in conflict                                     
At revision 439134.                                                             
Summary of conflicts:                                                           
  Skipped paths: 1  

On other computer, this directory downloads successfully with svn.

I even tried downloading with lynx and with w3m, but these text-mode browsers compress (gzip) the downloaded file, and I can't see how to avoid this.  I used to be able to download with lynx, and downloaded file was the same as on the server; lynx would never compress it gratuitously.

This is an old installation, needs to be updated when I can get to it after some other tasks.

svn --version shows
svn, version 1.8.8 (r1568071)                                                   
   compiled Mar 24 2014, 09:58:59 on amd64-portbld-freebsd11.0 

uname -a shows

FreeBSD amelia2 11.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #1 r286653M: Wed Aug 12 15:25:51 UTC 2015     root at amelia2:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SANDY11NC-NDIS  amd64

I wonder about the error message.  It recurs even if I rmdir the files directory and run "svn up ." again.

Could it be something going bad with this Western Digital 3 TB hard drive?

Old Xorg installation no longer works, crashes the computer immediately, so I can't use graphic browser unless I go to NetBSD installation that also sorely needs updating.  But maybe that subversion might work, onless it's something bad with the hard drive or some glitch with the server (but then why was it OK on the other computer?)

Tom