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Re: Teaching svnadmin to remove orphaned locks (Was: [CONTRIB] remove-zombie-locks.py, workaround for Issue #2507)

From: Nathan Kidd <nathan-svn_at_spicycrypto.ca>
Date: 2007-01-12 17:18:13 CET

Malcolm Rowe wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 10:30:30AM -0500, C. Michael Pilato wrote:
>> dev-folk, this is in reference to the problem in issue #2507.
>>
>> Nathan Kidd wrote:
>>> I'm not sure I'll have time, but would a patch for svnadmin adding the
>>> "clean whole repository" functionality likely be accepted?
>> What are you thinking in terms of an implementation? Having invested
>> about three minutes on it, here's what strikes me as do-able at the moment.
>>
>> Add the following flags to 'svnadmin rmlocks':
>>
>> --recursive (-R): descend recursively
>> --only-orphaned: only operate on locks for paths not in HEAD
>>
>
> I'd rather we try to make it impossible to have orphaned locks in the
> first place :-) Is that a hard problem?

Any repo of mainly non-mergable data that uses a 'svn:needs-lock on all
files' model is extremely likely to have these orphaned locks. There
needs to be a way to clean old/existing repositories. Of course
remove-zombie-locks.py can do this now, it's a question of whether this
is such a core problem that it should be built into svnadmin or not.

-Nathan

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