After manually stopping SCM sync by setting SCM to None and then back to SVN, the SCM sync plug in now does not synchronise hanges to job configurations.

I tried manually adding jobs/**/config.xml to the include pattern, but the server ground to a halt with Java using all the CPU and RAM and the server had to be restarted, dropping the build jobs that were in progress.

The log does not even talk about trying to make SCM commits. Here is an extract:

26/06/2013 10:12:36 AM hudson.plugins.scm_sync_configuration.ScmSyncConfigurationBusiness
FINEST: Queuing commit Commit hudson.plugins.scm_sync_configuration.model.Commit@1b8f748 :
Author : Dave Branton
Comment : SPR 22718: Jenkins configuration files updated by dbranton
Changeset :
A config.xml

to SCM ...
26/06/2013 10:11:23 AM hudson.plugins.scm_sync_configuration.ScmSyncConfigurationBusiness initializeRepository
INFO: SCM repository initialization done.
26/06/2013 10:11:23 AM hudson.plugins.scm_sync_configuration.SCMManipulator
FINE: Checkouted SCM files into [C:\Program Files\Jenkins\scm-sync-configuration\checkoutConfiguration] !
26/06/2013 10:11:18 AM hudson.plugins.scm_sync_configuration.SCMManipulator
FINE: Checkouting SCM files into [C:\Program Files\Jenkins\scm-sync-configuration\checkoutConfiguration] ...
26/06/2013 10:11:18 AM hudson.plugins.scm_sync_configuration.ScmSyncConfigurationBusiness initializeRepository
INFO: Initializing SCM repository for scm-sync-configuration plugin ...
26/06/2013 10:11:18 AM hudson.plugins.scm_sync_configuration.scms.SCM getConfiguredRepository
INFO: Populating credentials data into SCM repository object ...
26/06/2013 10:11:18 AM hudson.plugins.scm_sync_configuration.scms.SCM getConfiguredRepository
INFO: Populating host data into SCM repository object ...
26/06/2013 10:11:18 AM hudson.plugins.scm_sync_configuration.scms.SCM getConfiguredRepository
INFO: Creating SCM repository object for url : scm:svn:http://nzc-ctct-vcs-00.ctct.net/svn/ctct_tonka/ContinuousBuild/Jenkins
26/06/2013 10:11:18 AM hudson.plugins.scm_sync_configuration.scms.ScmSyncSubversionSCM createSCMCredentialConfiguration
INFO: Created SCM Credentials for user tonkatest...
26/06/2013 10:11:18 AM hudson.plugins.scm_sync_configuration.scms.SCM
FINE: Extracted realm from http://nzc-ctct-vcs-00.ctct.net/svn/ctct_tonka/ContinuousBuild/Jenkins is [<http://nzc-ctct-vcs-00.ctct.net:80> VisualSVN Server]
26/06/2013 10:11:17 AM hudson.plugins.scm_sync_configuration.scms.ScmSyncSubversionSCM extractScmCredentials
INFO: Extracting SVN Credentials for url : http://nzc-ctct-vcs-00.ctct.net/svn/ctct_tonka/ContinuousBuild/Jenkins
26/06/2013 10:11:17 AM hudson.plugins.scm_sync_configuration.SCMManipulator scmConfigurationSettledUp
INFO: Creating scmRepository connection data ..
26/06/2013 10:11:07 AM hudson.plugins.scm_sync_configuration.ScmSyncConfigurationBusiness queueChangeSet
INFO: Queue of changeset A hudson.model.UpdateCenter.xml
aborted (scm manipulator not settled !)