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I cannot do a SVN commit. I get this error:

How can it be fixed?

Nakilonuser810430user810430

10 Answers

You have to upgrade your subversion client to at least 1.7.

With the command line client, you have to manually upgrade your working copy format by issuing the command svn upgrade:

Upgrading the Working Copy

Subversion 1.7 introduces substantial changes to the working copy format. In previous releases of Subversion, Subversion would automatically update the working copy to the new format when a write operation was performed. Subversion 1.7, however, will make this a manual step. Before using Subversion 1.7 with their working copies, users will be required to run a new command, svn upgrade to update the metadata to the new format. This command may take a while, and for some users, it may be more practical to simply checkout a new working copy.
— Subversion 1.7 Release Notes

TortoiseSVN will perform the working copy upgrade with the next write operation:

Upgrading the Working Copy

Subversion 1.7 introduces substantial changes to the working copy format. In previous releases, Subversion would automatically update the working copy to the new format when a write operation was performed. Subversion 1.7, however, will make this a manual step.

Before you can use an existing working copy with TortoiseSVN 1.7, you have to upgrade the format first. If you right-click on an old working copy, TortoiseSVN only shows you one command in the context menu: Upgrade working copy.
— TortoiseSVN 1.7 Release notes

knittlknittl

from eclipse, you can select on the project, right click->team->upgrade

On MacOS:

1. Get the latest compiled SVN client binaries from here.
2. Install.
3. Add binaries to path (the last installation screen explains how).
4. Open terminal and run the following command on your project directory:

   svn upgrade

VaidenVaiden

If you have just upgraded to SVN 1.7 on your machine (like I just did), and have a lot of projects in your Eclipse workspace which need to be upgraded, you can do the following in a terminal window on Unix-baesd systems:

After Googling a bit, I found what seems to be the equivalent for Windows users:

See the answer by Alexey Shcherbak halfway down the page.

pfurbacherpfurbacher

This problem due to that you try to compile project that has the files of OLder SVN than you currently use.

Apache Subversion Client For Mac

You have two solutions to resolve this problem

1. to install the version 1.6 SVN to be compatible with project SVN files
2. try to upgrade the project ..( not always working ).

Oliver Watkins

After upgrading to the latest version of Tortoise-SVN I needed to do an 'Upgrade' first (as opposed to 'Update'!).

Thorsten DittmarThorsten Dittmar

If you're getting this error from Netbeans (7.2+) then it means that your separately installed version of Subversion is higher than the version in netbeans. In my case Netbeans (v7.3.1) had SVN v1.7 and I'd just upgraded my SVN to v1.8.

If you look in Tools > Options > Miscellaneous (tab) > Versioning (tab) > Subversion (pane), set the Preferred Client = CLI, then you can set the path the the installed SVN which for me was C:Program FilesTortoiseSVNbin.

More can be found on the Netbeans Subversion Clients FAQ.

icc97icc97

With AnkhSVN in Visual Studio, there's also an 'Upgrade Working Copy' option under the context menu for the solution in the Solution Explorer (when applicable).

Andre LuusAndre Luus

You can also get strange messages about the need to upgrade your working copy when there are other working copies nested into yours. I had this issue with a Symphony project were some framework folders are working copy, that I suppose have not been cleaned up properly before they were published.

In this case, just make a file search for .svn, and delete the .svn folders that you don't want (don't delete yours at the root of course).

You can upgrade to Subversion 1.7. In order to update to Subversion 1.7 you have to launch existing project in Xcode 5 or above. This will prompt an warning ‘The working copy ProjectName should be upgraded to Subversion 1.7’ (shown in below screenshot).

You should select ‘Upgrade’ button to upgrade to Subversion 1.7. This will take a bit of time.

If you are using terminal then you can upgrade to Subversion 1.7 by running below command in your project directory: svn upgrade

Note that once you have upgraded to Subversion 1.7 you cannot go back to Subversion 1.6.

Jayprakash DubeyJayprakash Dubey

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I'm trying to use svn 1.6 with my Xcode projects on lion. The server is a tortoise svn server on windows. I can check out the projects with no problem, but when I go to commit I get the error that

svn: Commit failed (details follow): svn: Can't get exclusive lock on file '/Volumes/SVN_Repository/Mobile/db/txn-current-lock': Operation not supported

The repository is fine. When I go to commit something to the same place with my windows client it works great. The windows client is 1.6.11 and the mac client is 1.6.12 I wouldn't think that would be that big of a deal.

Is there a way to make the mac client work nicely with the windows server?

Thanks

2 Answers

1. NEVER use file:/// protocol for accessing repo or working copy on shared drive
2. Install (any) good SVN-server with authenticated access
3. Configure server and use it without headache of lame workflow

TortoiseSVN is a Subversion client. Whilst it does include the svnserve server, you will need to manually configure that. You may want to have a look at uberSVN, which allows you to configure an Apache Subversion webserver so that you can access your repository via http://

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