Index: docs/conf.py
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--- docs/conf.py	(revision 8761)
+++ docs/conf.py	(working copy)
@@ -68,6 +68,10 @@
 # The name of the Pygments (syntax highlighting) style to use.
 pygments_style = 'trac'
 
+# Sphinx will recurse into subversion configuration folders and try to read 
+# any document file within. These should be ignored.
+# Note: exclude_dirnames is new in Sphinx 0.5
+exclude_dirnames = ['.svn']
 
 # Options for HTML output
 # -----------------------