On Oct 18, 2010, at 09:14, netvampire.tw wrote: > I use Subversion 1.6.13 recently, we want to delete a folder but fail.The > error message said there is a file name xxxx is locked by someone. try to > release lock or steal lock. > But the file already didn't exist. So we can not lock it. what happened to us? > How could we do? thanks.~
Yes, there is a bug or unexpected feature that Subversion allows locked files to be deleted but does not remove the locks. This was discussed once before, here: http://old.nabble.com/Zombie-files-prevent-me-from-re-adding-deleted-file-td20210870.html The above thread references a contributed script you can use to clean up these forgotten locks.
