How can I release locks in Subversion recursively?

Question

I am having a problem with version control in Subversion. I checked out a working copy from respository and got locks on all of its files. Then, without releasing the locks I ha

Answer 1

The repository administrator can remove the locks (recursively), operating on hundreds of files inside a problematic directory -- but only by scripting since there is not a --recursive option to svnadmin rmlocks.

$repopath=/var/svn/repos/myproject/;
$problemdirectory=trunk/bikeshed/
IFS=$'\n'; for f in $(sudo svnadmin lslocks $repopath $problemdirectory \
| grep 'Path: ' \
| sed "s/Path: \///") ; \
do sudo svnadmin rmlocks $repopath "$f" ; done

This solution works with filenames that have spaces in them.