SVN frequently says file is locked by me in another working copy

Question

I have an SVN repository (hosted on Dreamhost) with needs-lock set on binary files. It sometimes happen that, while committing files locked and modified by me, the commit fails

Answer 1

If using a JetBrains IDE:

right click on the file you want to unlock, go to Subversion and click lock

then select checkbox steal existing lock and apply with OK

right click on that file again, go to Subversion and click unlock

If using command line:

lock the file with --force

svn lock --force path/to/file.ext

and unlock it again

svn unlock path/to/file.ext