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Cute Bear
Cute Bear

Reputation: 3293

SVN Error (Can't set file)

Everytime I try to commit files to SVN I got the following error.

Command            Commit
Modified           D:\Project\src\WebSite\SomePage.aspx.cs
Sending Content    D:\Project\AKent\src\WebSite\Test\SomePage.aspx.cs
Commit succeeded, but other errors follow:
Error bumping revisions post-commit (details follow):
Can't set file 'D:\Project\AKent\src\WebSite\Test\SomePage.aspx.cs'
 read-write: Access is denied.

After I get this error, SVN doesnt allow me to update or commit anything! And what is really frustrating me is that the project folder is around 2 GB and every night I download it from SVN over and over.

Please help me to fix it! I just wanna know what is wrong with my SVN. I tried reinstalling, didn't fix anything.

Upvotes: 15

Views: 18825

Answers (5)

Vince I
Vince I

Reputation: 610

I was trying to revert a file but was receiving the error listed in the OP's post. Soony's answer just about worked for me. I cannot comment or edit that answer, so I had to copy their answer and add a small step at the end. S/he deserves all the credit.

  1. Run Command Prompt as Administrator
  2. Navigate to the target working
  3. copy svn cleanup
  4. svn revert [filename]

(the revert did not work in Windows Explorer/TortoiseSVN integrated tools, I had to do it from the cmd line)

Upvotes: 0

user7144194
user7144194

Reputation: 1

  1. copy the wrong folder (1) to another folder(2)
  2. delete the wrong folder (1)
  3. copy the backup(2) to (1) Hope this approach works for you too!

Upvotes: 0

Arivan Bastos
Arivan Bastos

Reputation: 1996

If you are sharing a svn versioned folder using samba and running into this issue when acessing it from windows machine, try:

http://tortoisesvn.net/faq.html#samba

Also add to your smb.conf file:

dos filemode = yes

Upvotes: 2

Soony
Soony

Reputation: 913

I had the same problem but fixed. My solution is:

1. Run Command Prompt as Administrator

2. Navigate to the target working copy 

3. svn cleanup

Upvotes: 36

Stefan
Stefan

Reputation: 43575

The error

read-write: Access is denied.

indicates that svn can not access the file or can't set all attributes it needs to that file. Now that either means you have not full access to those files or some other application has the file opened exclusively.

In the first case: make sure that your username has full access to all folders and subfolders of your working copy. Note that on Vista/Win7 it's not enough to be an admin - you have to give yourself full access to such files manually.k

In the second case: disable windows search indexer for your working copy, and exclude the working copy from being scanned by your virus scanner.

Upvotes: 7

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