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RE: Help: svn: Working copy 'XXXX/XXXX/XXX' locked

From: Di Hu <dhu_at_purdue.edu>
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 01:59:45 -0700 (PDT)

Hi Bert,

I think I tried 'svn status' before. It didn't help me because I couldn't
understand what it showed. But I have sloved this problem by renaming one of
the files through urls. Thank you for your suggestion.

Di

Bert Huijben-5 wrote:
>
>
>
> All 'svn' operations normalize the casing of passed filenames to their
> on-disk casing on case insensitive systems. (I'm not 100% sure if this
> works
> this way on Mac/OS, but it does on Windows
>
> So if there is some 'aLIGN.c' on disk and you pass 'svn rm align.c', 'svn'
> translates that to 'svn rm aLIGN.c' before it passes it into the library.
> So
> the real handler of the delete never sees that you passed different paths.
> (This is done in svn_client_args_to_target_array() ->
> svn_opt__arg_canonicalize_path())
>
>
> The workaround is to temporarily remove the on-disk file to something
> completely different and then use the command.
>
> But just calling 'svn status' should tell you if you have this issue. That
> should show you two files: one unversioned and one missing/obstructed.
>
> Bert
>
>

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