Why do I keep getting 'SVN: Working Copy XXXX locked; try performing 'cleanup'?

Question

If you have worked with SVN tools in Eclipse (Subversion, subversive) before, then you are likely familiar with the \'working copy \'XXX\' locked...\" error.

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Answer 1

This will happen when something went wrong in one of your folders in you project. You need to find out the exact folder that locked and execute svn cleanup under the specific folder. You can solve this as follows:

1. run svn commit command to find out which folder went wrong.
2. change directory to that folder and run svn cleanup. Then it's done.