Subversion stuck due to previous operation has not finished

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If I try to update my subversion repo  it says I must run cleanup  If I run cleanup  it says a file is missing   I deleted a MASSIVE directory of files that failed to commit this morning from my home pc  but then I commit the same set of files from work  and now my home repo is bust   So  cleanup says   Cleanup failed to process blablabla Can t set file blablabla read-write  The system cannot find the file specified   If I update it says      Command  Update      Error  Previous operation has not finished     run  cleanup  if it was  interrupted      Error  Please execute the    Cleanup  command       Completed     How do I get this unstuck

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Trying to run cleanup while your files are open gave me problems  as soon as I closed my application  Visual studio  I ran clean up and it was successful

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I resolved this error today when it occurred trying to Commit to SVN  The error was genuine  TortoiseSVN could not access a file which I tried to Commit  This file had been saved while running a program  As Administrator  in Windows  This means the file has Administrator access but not access from my account  TortoiseSVN running as interactive user   I took ownership of the nominated file under my windows account and after that Cleanup was able to proceed

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Workaround that worked for me    Cut the content of your directory and copy it to another folder  Run cleanup from command line on the empty folder  Copy the files back in the original folder    Done  but I cannot explain why this happens  If you don t remove the files  the cleanup command say that he can t read write those files

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I got the same problem  in my case I was using svn tortoise with the application I mean  Using the cmd shell of windows in root mode I applied svn cleanup and then svn update     Then you can comeback to the application mode aand it will work perfectly

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I initially got this problem trying to check in with TortoiseSVN   Initially  both  TortoiseSVN clean up and console svn cleanup both failed with similar messages as the original poster   But my solution   found out accidentally  was just to wait a few minutes   I am thinking TSVNCache was holding on to some of those files at the time of check in

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There is often no need for a new checkout or copying   I have just solved a similar issue relating to the error  previous operation has not finished  with help from this  Link   It seems that svn sometimes gets stuck while processing commands operations  All of these operations are stored in the database file wc db in the  svn folder   By downloading SQLite to my checkout directory and running  sqlite3 exe  svn wc db  select   from work queue    you can get a list of all pending operations  These operations are the ones the error is referring to as  not finished    By running   sqlite3 exe  svn wc db  delete from work queue    all of the old operations are deleted from the work queue and the error disapears  No need for a new checkout or anything

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I tried removing the  svn folder to other location and placed it back in the same root folder   After when I tried to update the SVN  it got updated   I don t know how exactly it worked

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I ve been in similar situations  Have you tried running cleanup from the root of your workspace  I know sometimes a cleanup from a child directory  where the problem lies  doesn t work  and cleanup from the root of the workspace does   If that still fails  since you had deleted a child dir somewhere  Try deleting 1 level higher from the child dir as well  assuming that is not the root   and re-trying update and cleanup    If cleanup attempts aren t succeeding at any level then the answer is unfortunately checkout a new working copy

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Running console svn cleanup has solved the same problem for me

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In my case  the error appeared when trying to commit from within an IDE  When I executed the commit of the same directories with TortoiseSVN in the explorer  the operation succeeded

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I had the same problem  and somehow found that I had a hidden  svn file at the c    level   Once I deleted this hidden folder   svn   everything worked okay   I must have unintentionally created a working directory at the root drive

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I was facing this problem after adding a jar which is already in the SVN and I added the new Version of it with the same name   In Eclipse I tried this    Right click on folder   Team   Refresh Cleanup  Clean  build and refresh my application  Restart the Eclipse    Using above steps I am able to Synchronize

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I had tried the most voted answers here and a few others to no avail  My WORK QUEUE table was empty and I wasn t able to try a clean up at a higher folder  What did work was the following  this is via Tortoise SVN     Right click on folder Go to TortoiseSVN -  Clean Up    Make sure the option to Break Locks is ticked and click OK   The Clean Up operation now completes successfully and I can continue  No downloading of sqlite3 or other convoluted solutions required

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I have also stuck with the same issue I have tried blow   1 Try kill the process related to svn i e  TSVNCache exe and TortoiseProc 2 Reverting the unversioned files and deletion of same  which I have in svn   3 cleanup using command prompt  svn cleanup   and finally when restarted the desktop it worked for me   So for restart of system worked for me

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delete the svn from the main folder and replace it from another viable copy you have from elsewere and then update  svn folder will be normally a hidden folder  So  please make sure  to unhide the folder before doing the above steps

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I just had a similar issue   Running Process Explorer showed that another program  Notepad    had a file handle to a folder that SVN had tried to delete   When I closed Notepad     Clean Up  was able to run successfully

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In my cases  after I close Visual Studio and retry the CleanUp  it works

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In my case a background Java Virtual Machine instance was running  killing which cleanup was successful

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I had taken  svn folder from my fellow developer and replaced my  svn folder with this  It worked for me  Don t know what may be other consequences

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follow below steps   1  Go to the directory where you are not able to successfully clean up via svn  Root folder or child folder    2  Select  svn folder in the directory  cut that folder and paste it in the separate drive or separate location  out of svn directory   3  Now  go back to the directory - right click and select TortoiseSVN -- gt Repo-browser  4  Checkout the folder it will not perform fresh checkout    5  All your items will be versioned again  and it will repair the internal issue of svn  and problem should be solved

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In Eclipse   Right click on your project folder  gt  Team  gt  Refresh Cleanup  In Eclipse window  select clean option under Project menu  item Finally  restart Eclipse

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In my case I had gulp-watch running that caused the problems  After stopping it I could execute Cleanup command

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I had an error such as  Can t change perms of file   Users Code UnitTest cpp   No such file or directory   The subversion is confused about a file that is no longer there  I simply did something like  echo ABCD     Users Code UnitTest cpp  to create a copy of the file  then cleanup  It worked

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I had the same issue  what worked for me    Copy your folders and files to another place  say to a folder   I changed my files recently and the commitment failed and led to the addressed problem  check out a new working copy copy your changed files from folder  to your working copy and override existing files  Commiting   Updating should work now

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I use tortoise SVN  When clean up failed  check cleanup option  Make sure the option to Break Locks is checked   Cleanup step    left mouse button in explore folder select  Tortoise SVN  -   Clean up     menu check  Break Locks  checked and press  ok    It already answered  but sometimes picture helps

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That has happened for me when using externals and one of them was corrupt  I had to go to that folder and perform a cleanup  Then the cleanup worked for the entire working copy    Example  Using external   widgets foo  common foo-widget  first perform cleanup on folder common foo-widget

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Further to Sigurd V s answer  you should try that first   some larger code bases have multiple   svn  folders  and it s not necessarily the one in the root directory which has the locked task    If that s the case  you have to check each one  If you ve already got SQLite and Powershell you can locate the offending directory quickly   To find which folders is locked run  replacing path to sqlite exe     Get-ChildItem -Path   -Filter   svn  -Recurse -Hidden   foreach    toFind      FullName     wc db    gci  toFind   foreach   echo    FullName   path to sqlite exe    FullName  select   from work queue         This gives a list of  svn directories and  below each one  a list of any current tasks    If there are any with unfinished tasks  for each one run  replacing path to sqlite exe and path to  svn wc db     path to sqlite exe path to  svn wc db  delete from work queue

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This can happen when you have files still open when you try to SVN switch   cleanup   I had a branch where I had created a new file  which I had open in another application  Switching to another branch could not remove the file causing the switch to fail  This was also causing the svn cleanup to fail  however this is not displayed as the reason in the Tortoise SVN UI   Running svn cleanup from a console window  on the root folder  clearly shows the error file location file ext  The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process  Closing any open file handles   windows and running the console svn cleanup then allows the cleanup to work correctly   Long story short - run svn cleanup in the console to see a more detailed error

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I have seen several issues with svn  including this one  solved by deleting creating an  svn tmp directory  Then run svn cleanup

[svn] Subversion stuck due to "previous operation has not finished"?

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