svn issue : format: permission denied

This is one crazy issue in svn. It took me 3 hours to solve this permission denied issue, what a waste.

Now usually you have a repository path of /home/svn/repo , the only chmod you apply is on repo directory
but this is not the case. You should chmod the entire svn home directory. Works for me.

Below is what I did to solve the issue.

chmod -R 755 /home/svn