What does a TortoiseSVN cleanup actually do?

Question

What does a TortoiseSVN cleanup actually do?

I have not found a pattern, but I frequently get asked to do a \"cleanup\" while trying to commit code.

If TortoiseS

Answer 1

It puts duct tape over bugs and a dumb architecture in SVN which allow the working copy to be corrupt.

It's not automatic for dumb architecture reasons and because it takes FOREVER. Of course, when SVN got popular its architecture was miles ahead of CVS.