RE: svn cleanup has problems with recursive cleanup

I've found that when I get into problems due to permissions errors affecting a subdirectory of a working copy, my best solution is to
a) move the affected subdirectory out of the working copy -- put it somewhere else so it becomes invisible to SVN
b) cd to the root of the working copy
c) svn cleanup as necessary
d) svn update, which will recreate a clean subdirectory, with all the correct permissions.
e) manually merge any changes to the subdirectory's files from the previously moved version. Do NOT copy back in any of the .svn control area.
f) svn diff to verify the manual merge
g) svn commit should now work, since the permissions have been fixed.

Bob Menschel
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-----Original Message-----
From: Miha Vitorovic [mailto:mvitorovic_at_nil.si]
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 6:17 AM
To: users_at_subversion.tigris.org
Subject: svn cleanup has problems with recursive cleanup

Hi all,

I'm having problems with "svn cleanup". Basically if I run the command on the root of the WC I get:

svn: In directory 'swfupload'
svn: Error processing command 'committed' in 'swfupload'
svn: Working copy '.' locked
svn: run 'svn cleanup' to remove locks (type 'svn help cleanup' for
details)

(svn help cleanup) does not offer any helpful information, of course :)

but if I

cd swfupload
svn cleanup
cd ..
svn cleanup

that seems to resolve the issue. Which seems unnecessary to me. Running svn cleanup on the root should IMO fix the entire WC, not force the user to travers the WC by himself.

On a related note, after doing all this dance, I am left with:

svn: In directory '.'
svn: Error processing command 'committed' in '.'
svn: Can't move '.svn/props/README.txt.svn-work' to
'.svn/prop-base/README.txt.svn-base': No such file or directory

Any suggestions on how to get out of this one?

SVN is 1.5.0 final. The error occured during the initial commit, because of the problem with permissions on .svn directories.

Br,

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