I have a job which does the follownig:

• ask user for some parameters (svn version, ...)
• based on the version and some other info, create tag in svn repo (pre scm step, via shell script calling direct svn copy)
• SCM/subversion fresh copy checkout

First of all the SCM step does not see the last revision created in the pre scm script.
The revision in question does not exist when job is started on slave. Is is added in the pre scm step.
I have added extra sleep in the script (30 seconds). Clocks of the master, slave, subversion repo are ntp synced and looks good.
I hoped adding retry would help, but with the NPE it doesn;t even get there.

Both jenkins.war and subversion are freshly updated (1.478, 1.42).