On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 04:22:30PM -0500, Andrew Sasak wrote: > svn propdel svn:sync-lock --revprop -r 0 REPO_URL
That looks good. Maybe there is pre-revprop-change hook the prevents the prop from being deleted? It works here with a pre-revprop-change hook that simply does "exit 0". I'm not sure why you are seeing a message that indicates sucess even though deletion fails... In a working copy from the test repository: $ svn ps --revprop -r0 svn:svnsync-lock '*' ^/ property 'svn:svnsync-lock' set on repository revision 0 $ svn pl --revprop -v -r0 ^/ Unversioned properties on revision 0: svn:svnsync-lock * svn:date 2011-01-27T20:55:31.311289Z $ svn pd --revprop -r0 svn:svnsync-lock ^/ property 'svn:svnsync-lock' deleted from repository revision 0 $ svn pl --revprop -v -r0 ^/ Unversioned properties on revision 0: svn:date 2011-01-27T20:55:31.311289Z $