Re: [Oorexx-devel] SVN problems (FIXED)

[Sahananda (J. W. <sah...@wi...>]

OK.  I found a solution on the tortoise forum.  I pass it on in case anyone
else comes up against this.

Use 'Clean up' on the SVN root directory to resolve locks.

Jon

On 5 December 2011 05:24, Sahananda (Jon) Wolfers
<sah...@wi...>wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I was going to correct some typos in the docs, but I seem to have locked
> myself out of the SVN forever.
>
> Commiting a docs\trunc\oodialog\overview.xml I got a message from
> Subversion that my working copy was out of date (by sheer bad luck, Mark
> was committing rev 7338 at the same time).
>
> I attempted an update, but it hung.
> I cancelled it.
>
> Now when I try to do an update I get this message:
>
>> Error: Working copy 'D:\My Documents\oorexxSVN\oorexx' locked.
>> Error: 'D:\My Documents\oorexxSVN\oorexx\docs\trunk' is already locked.
>> Completed!:
>
>
> When I try to unlock my working copy I get this message:
>
>> There's nothing to unlock.  No file has a lock in this working copy
>
>
> In a moment of madness, I deleted the copy of the file in my working copy,
> thinking I would then be able to do an update
> I have restarted my machine to no avail.
>
> I still get the above messages.
>
> Before I go off to the tortoise help forums, does anyone have any helpful
> suggestions.
>
> thanks,
>
> Jon
>
> PS: to find the typos, search for 'WPARM', 'ojbect' and 'containng'
>