[thelist] Subversion locking

Jon Molesa rjmolesa at consoltec.net
Fri Oct 19 15:29:40 CDT 2007


I knew someone else would have a better answer.

*On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 12:13:46PM -0700 Steve Axthelm <steveax at pobox.com> wrote:

> Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 12:13:46 -0700
> From: Steve Axthelm <steveax at pobox.com>
> To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
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> Subject: Re: [thelist] Subversion locking
> 
> On 2007-10-18 Paul Bennett wrote:
> 
> > We've got an SVN repository and work with a local copy of our site.
> > All has been going fine until a couple, of days ago for my colleague.
> > 
> > > From what I can tell, she has an old lock file on her client setup
> > > which is preventing her checking in / updating form one particular
> > > directory.
> > 
> > I can check in and update the dir, so we know the repository is ok,
> > but I'm guessing something failed (network outage or the like) during
> > one of her commits, leaving the client thinking that the dir was still
> > locked.
> 
> You've tried 'cleanup' on the working copy?
> 
> svn cleanup --help
> cleanup: Recursively clean up the working copy, removing locks, resuming
> unfinished operations, etc.
> usage: cleanup [PATH...]
> 
> Valid options:
>   --diff3-cmd arg          : use ARG as merge command
>   --config-dir arg         : read user configuration files from directory ARG
> 
> HTH,
> 
> 
> -Steve
> 
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