Re: svn merge: working copy locked, but it's not

[Ben Collins-Sussman <su...@collab.net>]

David, did you ever figure this one out?


On May 18, 2005, at 2:23 PM, David Pankros wrote:

> I've tried searching for information about this but I can't find
> anything.  There's always the chance that I missed something, so I
> apologize if this has been asked before.
>
> I've been having an issue with subversion and merging.  I first  
> tried it
> with tortoise but since that gave me an error, I switched to the  
> command
> line to rule out any extra issues.  I'm using svn 1.1.4 on both the
> client and server.  The server is running with apache/dav.
>
> I have a repo that looks roughly like this (unnecessary parts pruned):
>
> http://svn/repo
>   |
>   +--branches
>   |    +--1.0-beta1
>   |         +--module1
>   |         +--module2
>   |         +--module3
>   |         +--(and so on...)
>   |
>   +--trunk
>        +--product
>             +--module1
>             +--module2
>             +--module3
>             +--(and so on...)
>
> I want to merge the changes FROM THE TRUNK to the branches/1.0-beta1
> directory. (Yes, I know it's a little backward, and I'm changing my
> overall strategy after this merge.)
>
> I have already merged one change to the 1.0-beta1 branch successfully:
> C:\views\1.0-beta1>svn log --stop-on-copy
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> --
> r296 | dpankros | 2005-04-22 11:57:20 -0500 (Fri, 22 Apr 2005) | 1  
> line
>
> Merged fix for bug#38.
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> --
> r290 | dpankros | 2005-04-12 12:36:48 -0500 (Tue, 12 Apr 2005) | 1  
> line
>
> Created 1.0-beta1 branch.
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> --
>
> And I just checked out the working copy:
> C:\views\1.0-beta1>svn status
> (no output)
>
> Trying to merge using --dry-run is successful and shows the correct
> files updated, AFAICT.  So I try to merge my changes to the branch:
> C:\views\1.0-beta1>svn merge -r 297:HEAD http://svn/repo/trunk/product
> U  module1\project.xml
> U  module1\maven.xml
> svn: Working copy 'module1\src\java\META-INF' locked
> svn: run 'svn cleanup' to remove locks (type 'svn help cleanup' for
> details)
>
> I've tried other forms of the merge command, but they all fail at the
> same place.
>
> Just for kicks, I see if I can confirm what it is saying:
> C:\views\1.0-beta1>svn status
> M      module1\project.xml
> M      module1\maven.xml
>
> But there are no locks.  I can try running "svn cleanup", but the  
> merge
> will give the same error again.  So what's the deal here?  Does anyone
> have any clue why it says it's locked when it clearly is not?  What
> should I check first?
>
> Thanks,
> Dave
>
>
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