On 10/3/2006 3:28 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> On Oct 2, 2006, at 14:37, Jason Ulrich wrote:
>
>> I've tried to run svn cleanup on several levels of my working
>> copies and I
>> continually run into locks. I think somebody who hadn't used
>> subversion
>> before tried to delete the .svn directories on a couple directories
>> and
>> now we're not able to do anything.
>>
>> Svn status shows the files as "M" and not "L". Yet, the errors keep
>> saying that they are locked.
>
> I think you're mixing up two unrelated uses of the word "lock" when
> relating to Subversion.
>
> One sense, which I think applies to your situation, is that
> Subversion had trouble dealing with your working copy, and left some
> tokens around, which svn cleanup is meant to clean up, except if you
> removed .svn directories then it won't be able to, so your working
> copy will still be locked, in that sense.
>
> The other sense, the one which has an L status, is when you want to
> be the only person able to work on a given file, and you lock it in
> the repository until you're done with your changes. I don't think
> this applies to you.
This isn't actually correct. I interrupted an "svn switch" this
afternoon (because I realized that I needed a "make clean" first), and
it left "svn status" listing a number of files labelled with "L". "svn
cleanup" managed to clean things up properly. (This was with the svn
1.3.2 client.)
Duncan murdoch
>
> But, if you post the exact error message you get, that might clarify
> which of these cases applies.
>
>
>> What's our best plan of attack here?
>
> Best bet is to check out a new working copy, manually move over any
> uncommitted changes you still had in the old working copy, and in the
> future, don't remove .svn directories or anything in them. That's
> Subversion's domain and it needs everything there to be under its
> control so it knows what's up.
>
>
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