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RE: Visual Studio build fails because .svn\wc.db is open

From: Bob Archer <Bob.Archer_at_amsi.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:43:20 -0500

> For a variety of reasons the intent is for me to commit only compiled code to a
> repository. I admit I am a relative newbie to using a repository and
> TortoiseSVN. What I have done so far is:
>
> - Create a directory in my repository under /branches (as I was directed)
> - Checkout the empty branch to my populated build directory
> - SVN Commit the directory to the repository (which uploaded all the files)
>
> At this point if I try to build again, I get the message:
>
> Error 5 Unable to delete file "C:\Users\.....\Test Server\\.svn\wc.db".
> The process cannot access the file 'C:\Users\.....\Test Server\\.svn\wc.db'
> because it is being used by another process.
>
> So presumably that's because TortoiseSVN has wc.db open and thus Visual
> Studio can't delete it to repopulate the folder. How do I work around that? Is
> there a better way to accomplish this?
>

Move to 1.7... the .svn folder is only in the root working copy folder in that case so you won't have an issue.

BOb

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