Folder is locked and I can't unlock it

Question

When I\'m trying to update or commit code from a project it\'s telling me that the folder is locked. When I try to \"release lock\" it says that there\'s nothing to unlock in th

Answer 1

I had this problem where I couldn't unlock a file from the client side. I decided to go to the sever side which was much simpler.

On SVN Server:

Locate locks

 svnadmin lslocks /root/of/repo
 (in my case it was var/www/svn/[name of Company])

 You can add a specific path to this by svnadmin lslocks /root/of/repo "path/to/file"

Remove lock

 svnadmin rmlocks /root/of/repo “path/to/file” 

That's it!