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

From: Daniel Becroft <djcbecroft_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:45:20 +1000

On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 3:43 AM, Bob Archer <Bob.Archer_at_amsi.com> wrote:

> > 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
>

If the original poster is getting an error regarding wc.db, then they are
already on 1.7.

Cheers,
Daniel B.

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