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:

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Answer 1

If the issue is case sensitivity (which can be a problem when checking out to a Mac, as well as Windows) and you don't have the option of checking out onto a *nix system, the following should work. Here's the process from the beginning:

% svn co http://[domain]/svn/mortgages mortgages

(Checkout ensues… then…)

svn: In directory 'mortgages/trunk/images/rates'
svn: Can't open file 'mortgages/trunk/images/rates/.svn/tmp/text-base/Header_3_nobookmark.gif.svn-base': No such file or directory

Here SVN is trying to check out two files with similar names that differ only by case - Header_3_noBookmark.gif and Header_3_nobookmark.gif. Mac filesystems default to case insensitivity in a way that causes SVN to choke in situations like this. So...

% cd mortgages/trunk/images/rates/
% svn up
svn: Working copy '.' locked
svn: run 'svn cleanup' to remove locks (type 'svn help cleanup' for details)

However, running svn cleanup doesn't work, as we know.

% svn cleanup
svn: In directory '.'
svn: Error processing command 'modify-wcprop' in '.'
svn: 'spacer.gif' is not under version control

spacer.gif isn't the problem here… It just can't move past the previous error to the next file. So I deleted all of the files from the directory other than .svn, and removed the SVN log. This made cleanup work, so that I could check out and rename the offending file.

% rm *; rm -rf .svn/log; svn cleanup
% svn up Header_3_nobookmark.gif
A    Header_3_nobookmark.gif
Updated to revision 1087.
% svn mv Header_3_nobookmark.gif foo
A         foo
D         Header_3_nobookmark.gif
% svn up
A    spacer.gif
A    Header_3_noBookmark.gif

Following this, I was able to go back to the root directory of the project, and run svn up to check out the rest of it.