Subversion stuck due to "previous operation has not finished"?
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?
Answer
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