Re: [PATCH] Improve reporting WC is locked/busy ('run cleanup')

On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 9:36 AM, Stefan Sperling <stsp_at_elego.de> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 12:58:24PM +0100, Julian Foad wrote:
>> When the WC is locked we may (depending on the timing) see:
>>
>>   $ svn up -q & svn up -q
>>   svn: E155004: Working copy '/home/...' locked.
>>   svn: E155004: '/home/...' is already locked.
>>   svn: run 'svn cleanup' to remove locks (type 'svn help cleanup' for
>> details)
>
> What always bothered me about this message is that it does not
> explain the most likely reason why the working copy may be locked.
> Namely that another client is currently accessing the working copy,
> such as some GUI client performing background operations.
>
> The message currently implies that the only course of action is
> to run cleanup, but this is precisely the wrong thing to do if another
> client is performing an operation that will take a bit of time.

In my experience (with WC-1) that is never the cause of the message.
9 times out of 10 the problem is that the .svn folder has been removed
by some build process and the other is that some previous process
crashed and left locks behind.

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Thanks
Mark Phippard
http://markphip.blogspot.com/