Tortoise SVN Merge Dry Run successful but then fails

Question

I am merging a branch back into trunk using re-intergrate. The dry run succeeds without any conflicts so I proceed to merge and get the following error

Working copy 'D:\Repositories\FwCore\' locked Error reading spooled Report request response Please execute 'Cleanup' command

Cleanup does not do anything. I have merged the trunk into the branch so that I can merge the branch back into trunk without problems. This has worked before, but now I am running into this problem and I have no idea what to do, not to mention is very frustrating. Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

Found this on the net -- looks like the same situation as yours.. perhaps you can get some insight with this http://groups.google.com/group/tortoisesvn/browse_thread/thread/970b711c494707b2?hide_quotes=no

Answer 2

Finally solved the issue. It can be quick or very long depending on how much you changed in your branch. In my case, the problem was deleting a folder named Framework (in the branch, while the Trunk's Framework folder was untouched) and then creating the same folder at a later stage in the branch in the same place [I had a couple of other renames/deletions similar to this]. This caused the confusion for SVN. The other problem was renaming a folder and then subsequently deleting it.

On to the fix:

• Follow the steps in this answer first
• Switch to your trunk
• Now start a "Reintegrate a branch"
• Perform a full merge (not a dry run) and see where the problem folders are
• Now Revert back any changes, and go to each one of these folders and do a "Merge of a range of revisiosn"
• Go through the log and select only the revision that deleted/renamed the folder
• Now commit those changes - this is very important (this will delete/rename the folder in trunk)
• Now perform another reintegration on the folder, this time for the next rename/deletion/addition/commit of the problem folder
• Keep doing this until you have no more additions/renames/deletions of the problem folder
• Make sure you commit every time you make a change, otherwise things will go bad again
• Perform these steps on all the problem folders
• Once all the problem folders have been fixed, perform a "Reintegrate a branch" one more time on trunk itself. This time everything should go smoothly. If there is another tree conflict, revert changes, and perform the above steps on the problem folder

I have been able to reproduce this problem on a 'dummy' repository. I will submit a suggestion to tortoise SVN team to take this kind of situation into account and let it perform the steps automatically when re-integrating branches