I notice there's new folders in the svn tree added by Dagooos two days ago. Conf, dav, db, locks and hooks. They're not very big (one is empty) so are they really necessary?

I have no idea. I don't know what they are for. I assumed the SVN client Dagoos is using automatically added them. I don't know if they can be safely deleted or not.

These are directories that svn(subversion) uses to manage the files on the sever. They are created by the svnadmin utility or can be created by the "Created Repository here...." using TortoiseSVN. My guess is that accidently got created and checked in.

So what's the story? Is Dagoons even working on SO? Can we delete them? They're really bugging me.

Delete them.

Ah. That feels better. Thanks Martin.

Sigh. They've been added again by some one else. At least I don't have to look at them for another week.

It was Jody this time. Maybe it has something to do with the newest version of Tortoise? I don't have the newest version installed.

I agree the files should go.

After deleting them, get the SVN server manager to change the server configuration to remove permissions to those paths so it doesn't get added again. In conf/authz:

[/db]
*=

[/hooks]
*=

[/conf]
*=

(and similar for other folders)

* is any user
Blank after the equals means no permissions.

Alternately, you can say *=r for read-only permissions.