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Re: Update blocked and cleanup not possible

From: Ryan Schmidt <subversion-2009b_at_ryandesign.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 12:35:43 -0500

On Jul 27, 2009, at 10:23, Matthias Fechner wrote:

> I have a problem on my Mac with subversion 1.6.3.
> (svn, version 1.6.3 (r38063))
>
> Today I had a file abc168P.h in the filesystem.
>
> There was a capital letter in it and I wanted to rename it to small
> letters only.
> I tried
> svn mv abc168P.h abc168p.h
> but it was not successfully.

Case-only renames are complicated, as explained in the FAQ:

http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html#case-change

> So I did the following:
> svn mv abc168P.h abc168p2.h
> svn mv abc168p2.h abc168p.h
> svn commit

I would not recommend attempting to "svn mv" a thing twice without
committing in between.

> That worked and commited the file correctly to the repository.
> But now my local repository is locked completely.
> svn up
> svn: Working copy '.' locked
> svn: run 'svn cleanup' to remove locks (type 'svn help cleanup' for
> details)
>
> If i try a "svn cleanup ." it says
> svn: In directory '.'
> svn: Error processing command 'committed' in '.'
> svn: Log command for directory 'abc168P.h' is mislocated
>
> What can I do to solve that problem?

I don't know what exactly happened, but I would recommend you check
out a new working copy and use that instead of the old one.

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