For those of you who use Subversion 1.7 and Emacs: There is a version of that vc-svn that supports Subversion 1.7.(https://raw.github.com/buzztaiki/vc-svn17-el/master/vc-svn17.el).
Now I have my nice icons back in Emacs, telling me if the file has to be committed or is up-to-date: