What should I do when 'svn cleanup' fails?

Question

I have a lot of changes in a working folder, and something screwed up trying to do an update.

Now when I issue an \'svn cleanup\' I get:

>svn clea         


        

Answer 1

This answer only applies to versions before 1.7 (thanks @ŁukaszBachman).

Subversion stores its information per folder (in .svn), so if you are just dealing with a subfolder you don't need checkout the whole repository - just the folder that has borked:

cd dir_above_borked
mv borked_dir borked_dir.bak
svn update borked_dir

This will give you a good working copy of the borked folder, but you still have your changes backed up in borked_dir.bak. The same principle applies with Windows/TortoiseSVN.

If you have changes in an isolated folder have a look at the

svn checkout -N borked_dir   # Non-recursive, but deprecated

or

svn checkout --depth=files borked_dir
# 'depth' is new territory to me, but do 'svn help checkout'