I reported bug 7663 some time ago: #7663 23.2; duplicate entries in vc-dir-mode (Windows) due to backslash from svn output Here is a patch with a one line fix. The subversion command svn.exe I use on windows output backslashes. In all other places in vc-svn.el a call to expand-file-name causes these to replaced with forward slashes. The problem was that same file ends up appearing twice in the vc-dir buffer. 2011-02-24 Vagn Johansen * vc/vc-svn.el (vc-svn-after-dir-status): Replace backslash with forward slash in output from svn commmand.