Unable to lock error: what is going on here?

$ svn update
svn: Unable to lock 'utscmd'

$ svn propget svn:ignore
utspkg_src
utscmd
utslib
utsbin
utstool

utscmd is a subdirectory of the current working directory. It is
included in svn:ignore. Why is svn even trying to lock this directory?

The sequence of events here is that the project was checked out and then
its build command run. The build command created a number of
directories, which have been added to svn:ignore so as not to figure in
svn at all.

What am I failing to understand here?

Steve Cohen
Received on 2010-12-01 18:56:49 CET