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Re: Working Copy Not Locked

From: B. W. Fitzpatrick <fitz_at_red-bean.com>
Date: 2002-11-22 01:20:35 CET

Andrew Hogue <hogue@cs.yorku.ca> writes:
> Hi all,
>
> I recently installed SVN on my system and have a repository going now...
> but I have a funny problem ...
>
> I moved a directory using "svn mv dirname ../dirname" in my working copy
> of the repository but now when I try to do an "svn update" or any svn
> command for that matter, I get the following message:
>
> "svn: Working copy not locked (dirname)
> svn: directory not locked (eps)"
>
> How do you solve this problem?

$ cd ..
$ mv oldpwd/dirname ./dirname
$ svn ci -m "blah"

Last I remember, you couldn't do move or copy operations above your
cwd, so the workaround is to change directory up to the nearest
directory that contains both the source and destination of your copy.

-Fitz

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