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Locks kept for deleted files - "no matching lock-token available" (was: Re: workaround request)

From: Nathan Kidd <nathan-svn_at_spicycrypto.ca>
Date: 2006-12-01 19:41:27 CET

Tobias Schäfer wrote:
> On Friday 01 December 2006 16:14, Gerasimov, Ivan wrote:
>> Subversion has a known issue - it lets committing deletion of locked
>> files with --no-unlock flag, thus deleted files remain locked.
>
> The following workaround originally posted by Stefan should work:
>
> ----------------------------------------------
> Unfortunately, you need the svn client to recover from this:
> svn unlock --force url/to/nonexisting/file
> ----------------------------------------------
>
> see http://svn.haxx.se/tsvnusers/archive-2006-08/0074.shtml
>
> I'd prefer not implementing a workaround in TortoiseSVN since the problem
> can be solved with the command line client and is not that common.

For code-centric projects, no, not a common problem but for some content
types it's a real issue. This morning I added a note about this to the
bug and C.M. Pilato says he's working on it now.

http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2507

-Nathan

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