Working copy XXX locked and cleanup failed in SVN

One approach would be to: Copy edited items to another location. Delete the folder containing the problem path. Update the containing folder through Subversion. Copy your files back or merge changes as needed. Commit Another option would be to delete the top level folder and check out again. Hopefully it doesn’t come to that though.

How to get started with svn:externals?

Here are some sections about it in the svnbook / TortoiseSVN manual: This is the svnbook page on svn:externals. It is the most useful resource on the subject. This one explains four ways to include sub-projects in the workflow (and in the process misses a fifth one: symlinks). And this last one is a TortoiseSVN-specific page on how to … Read more