[Gambas-user] fouled up svn question

Benoît Minisini gambas at ...1...
Wed Sep 30 08:56:05 CEST 2009


> Gambas has fouled up my svn, I think benoit is aware of the issue but in
>  the meantime I can't commit.
> 
> It occurred around renaming a directory in gambas.
> 
> When I last did an update this was the outcome
> D         help/clinical/familyhistory
> Updated to revision 202.
> 
> I then tried a commit but the directory is still physically on the disk and
> there  is a little padlock on the directory name
> 
> richard ~/coding/trunk  $  svn commit -m "more help"
> svn: Commit failed (details follow):
> svn: Unable to lock
>  '/home/richard/coding/trunk/help/clinical/familyhistory'
> 
> does anyone know how to resolve this sort of problem?
> 
> Regards
> 
> richard
> 

Gambas is not necessarily the cause, svn is powerful enough to screw up itself 
in many many ways.

Do what I have already told you: checkout somewhere else, apply your changes 
there by hand, to start from a fresh local repository.

Regards,

-- 
Benoît Minisini




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