Re: missing or not locked

On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 10:10 -0700, Garrett Rooney wrote:
> On 4/17/06, Craig White <craigwhite@azapple.com> wrote:
> > $ svn commit --message="more doc updates"
> > svn: Commit failed (details follow):
> > svn: Working copy '/home/craig/th-db/doc/app' is missing or not locked
> >
> > $ svn status
> > ~ doc/app
> >
> > $ svn delete doc/app
> > svn: Working copy 'doc/app' is missing or not locked
> >
> > How do I solve this?
>
> Well, a ~ in status output means that there's an item of an unexpected
> type there. i.e. if doc/app used to be a directory it's now a file,
> or vice-versa. One way to fix things would be to remove it (regular
> rm, not svn rm) and then run 'svn update' to pull down the old version
> of it from the repository.

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that is indeed what I did and it 'seems' to have worked.
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> How did the working copy get in that state in the first place?
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the origins of this directory are a bit fuzzy since it is created from a
'ruby on rails' methodology of 'rake doc/app' (now 'rake doc:app') and
it seems to have changed somewhat with the recent updates of 'rails'
which might be the cause of this - external to svn itself.
Craig
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