SVN: Problems with tag creation in Eclipse with Subversive

Question

I'm trying to create to create a tag in svn repo for my project. I use Eclipse and Subversive plugin. Every time I try tagging, I get the following error:

Tag operation for some of selected resources failed. svn: Commit failed (details follow): svn: No write-lock in '/home/project/directory'

Where /home/directory is a directory in my project. I'm pretty sure that if I would delete the project and re-checkout it, then all will work.

Does anybody know what is the source of the problem and if there is a workaround to get it working without delete-checkout cycle?

Answer 1

Thanks for raising this issue! I just ran into this with Subversive 2.2.2 on Eclipse Indigo (3.7).

Cleaning up repository didn't work, but I noticed that the local copy has an old revision number (like 2, where the current is 37), although I am sure I committed before tagging.

So I ended up replacing the local code with the latest from repository, which updated the revision number. After that tagging worked like charm.

Answer 2

You find that error popping up from time (2008) (to time (2009) ) to time (2010) .
Since there isn't any answer, that usually means the problem got away (like relaunching Eclipse was enough to pass that ordeal).
It could be a permission issue, or a resource (like a file or directory) blocked by a process.

But if it is more complicated, you still have the command-line alternative (a svn copy )

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VJ. reports in the comments :

I eventually tried svn update which explained me that the write lock is present in another path of SVN.
So I issued a svn clean for the from the root tree . Which cleared the issue.
Post that, svn update worked as well as svn switch .

Answer 3

You need to delete the File called 'lock' in the .svn Directory, then svn should work again. regards.

Answer 4

You need to Clean up your project.

Right Click > Team > Cleanup

Then you can Switch to any branch you want

Answer 5

same issue here(just tried to create a branch instead of a tag in this case). check out the ultimate solution : 1) commit the code. 2) disconnect the project from SVN. 3) delete the project from the workspace. 4) check out the project. 5) try again.

voila! its a bit overkill, but this works 100%

Answer 6

对我来说，解决方案是项目目录顶部的一个简单的“svn up”。