How can I release locks in Subversion recursively?

Question

I am having a problem with version control in Subversion. I checked out a working copy from respository and got locks on all of its files. Then, without releasing the locks I ha

Answer 1

When I tried to run the script from above as originally provided, I was getting an error when it tried to set the variables: ./scriptname: line1: =/svn/repo/path/: No such file or directory ./scriptname: line2: =directory/: No such file or directory

I removed the '$' from the first two lines and this worked perfectly after that.

repopath=/var/svn/repos/myproject/;
problemdirectory=trunk/bikeshed/
IFS=$'\n'; for f in $(sudo svnadmin lslocks $repopath $problemdirectory \
| grep 'Path: ' \
| sed "s/Path: \///") ; \
do sudo svnadmin rmlocks $repopath "$f" ; done