working copy not locked after partial checkout

Can someone please help with this issue.

We have an application which does a checkout of some
configuration files at the top-level of a repository,
then it reads one of those files to determine the
name of a certain subdirectory, then goes on to checkout
only that subdirectory ...

svn co -N http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/public/trunk incubator
A incubator/forrest.properties
A incubator/status.xml
...
then it reads forrest.properties, then goes on to do:
svn co http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/public/trunk/site-author incubator/site-author
svn: Working copy 'incubator/site-author' not locked

For this particular repository, the subdirectory happens
to be also at the top-level. For other repositories, there
is no problem because the subdirectory is one or two levels
below.

Is there a way around this problem?

--David

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Received on Wed Jan 19 03:23:58 2005