In attempting to pull down a copy of the trunk to my PC, I inadvertently
accessed a file in the Subversion repository that was created on a non-Windows
machine. The file has a name containing a less-than sign, which is illegal in
DOS/Windows. This caused a circular condition in which Svn was unable to
complete processing of the checkout, and further cannot execute its cleanup
utility. Thus, cleanup cannot run because of a checkout problem; checkout
cannot run because of a cleanup problem. Ultimately, the problem really is that
the file cannot be renamed to its given, but illegal, name.
Subversion client is TortoiseSVN (1.7.1, Build 22161 – 64 Bit). Windows 7 PC.
Attempting to run a Svn Update causes this to appear:
Update Failed!
Error Previous operation has not finished; run ‘cleanup’ if it was
interrupted
Error Please execute the ‘Cleanup’ command.
The operation failed.
An attempt to cleanup results in this dialog box message:
Cleanup failed to process the following paths:
C:\Users\myusername\svn\trunk\research
Working copy ‘C:\Users\myusername\svn\trunk\research’ locked.
‘C:\Users\myusername\svn\trunk’ is already locked.
Two suggested workarounds -- deleting the working directory, and attempting the
cleanup at the trunk level -- have the same results.
I do see that Svn retrieved the file’s contents to a temp folder
(C:\users\myusername\svn\.svn\tmp), but cannot rename that to the
non-conforming filename.
Do I need to delete my entire working directory? I am essentially dead in the
water here, as I cannot do any Subversion work in any directory.
On site, work is being done to rename or delete the offending files, but that
will not help me in my local build area on my PC.
Suggestions welcome.
Stuart Strickland
Software Engineer
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