Question

So guys I tried a commit on our server and end up in this stupid loop

www.domain.com@www01:~/html$ svn ci -m 'Rewrite rules added'
svn: Working copy '/www/sites/www.domain.com/files/html' locked
svn: run 'svn cleanup' to remove locks (type 'svn help cleanup' for details)

So I go ahead and try a cleanup, but end up with the error…..

www.domain.com@www01:~/html$ svn cleanup
svn: 'var/session' is not a working copy directory

Okay, so var shouldn’t be used anyway so lets try to ignore var/

www.domain.com@www01:~/html$ svn rm var --keep-local
svn: Working copy '.' locked
svn: run 'svn cleanup' to remove locks (type 'svn help cleanup' for details)

And it asks me to cleanup again… I’m in a viscious circle here, anyone know
what to do?

UPDATE

As per another thread I tried moving it

$ mv var var_
$ svn cleanup
$ svn revert var
Failed to revert 'var' -- try updating instead.
$ mv var_/ var
$ svn add var
www.domain.com@www01:~/html$ svn add var
svn: Working copy 'var' locked
svn: run 'svn cleanup' to remove locks (type 'svn help cleanup' for details)

And also

$ www.domain.com@www01:~/html/var$ mv session session_
$ www.domain.com@www01:~/html/var$ cd ../
$ www.domain.com@www01:~/html$ svn cleanup
$ www.domain.com@www01:~/html$ svn ci -m 'Rewrite Rules'
    svn: Commit failed (details follow):
    svn: Directory '/www/sites/www.domain.com/files/html/var/session' is missing
    svn: Directory '/www/sites/www.domain.com/files/html/var/session' is missing

$ www.domain.com@www01:~/html$ mv var/session_ var/session
$ www.domain.com@www01:~/html$ svn ci -m 'Rewrite Rules'
    svn: Working copy '/www/sites/www.domain.com/files/html' locked
    svn: run 'svn cleanup' to remove locks (type 'svn help cleanup' for details)

$ www.domain.com@www01:~/html$ svn cleanup
    svn: 'var/session' is not a working copy directory

But no dice….

Answer 1

It’s hard to give concrete advice without knowing the specifics of your file and project structure but subversion is telling you the var/session folder isn’t a part of your project — it seems like svn cleanup assumes all folders found are a part of your (or a) project.

You’ll either need to temporarily move var/session out of your project directory, and then restore it after the cleanup or just blow the var/session folder away (assuming this is a development/staging server, and your session information isn’t critical).