Svn error "Previous operation has not finished"

Question

This morning i was committing several items to a svn repository. During the commit operation my operating system crashed and now all svn commands (Including clean up) ends up with the same error.

Previous operation has not finished; run 'cleanup' if it was interrupted
Please execute the 'Cleanup' command."

I dont get other errors like Subversion stuck due to "previous operation has not finished"? and as the repository is very i big i dont want to checkout everything again like suggested here: Issues with previous operation not finishing

possible duplicate of [Subversion stuck due to "previous operation has not finished"?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10128201/subversion-stuck-due-to-previous-operation-has-not-finished) — sealz, Mar 28 '14 at 14:18
There is a difference between the two questions as he is getting other errors as well. I only get the subversion stuck due to previous operation has not finished — Sigurd V, Mar 28 '14 at 14:23

score 56 · Accepted Answer · edited Nov 03 '14 at 21:21

56

Actually just found the answer to my question by looking here

It seems that svn was stuck in the old operation. All of these operations are stored in the database wc.db in the .svn folder.

By downloading SQLite to my checkout directory and running

sqlite3.exe .svn/wc.db "select * from work_queue"

from cmd

i got a list of all pending operations. These operations are the ones "not finished" then by running

sqlite3.exe .svn/wc.db "delete from work_queue"

all of these pending operations are deleted and i can commit again. No need for a re checkout or anything

edited Nov 03 '14 at 21:21

Rob

2,080
4
28
48

answered Mar 28 '14 at 14:21

Sigurd V

5,077
4
18
27

1

Worked for me, but note that copying directly from above to a command prompt might fail because your browser renders the quotes (") wrong. Make sure to use 'straight' quotes, or simply fix them after you paste the commands using your keyboard. Great solution btw. – Andy Aug 15 '14 at 04:46
This saved my local changes! I had to use capital table names. WORK_QUEUE instead of work_queue – Luka Bradeško Feb 11 '15 at 08:16
1

after i deleted, i ran cleanup again, after that it was coming up fine – Anoop Isaac May 04 '15 at 15:54

score 17 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 10 '17 at 10:07

17

I tried all the solutions listed in this page, but my problem still didn't work out.

I solved it by another way. Just in case some still didn't get a solution, try this (I'm using TortoiseSVN 1.9.5):

Click "Clean up..." as usual and open cleanup popup
check "Break locks"
click "OK" button to execute

answered Aug 10 '17 at 10:07

Joon

171
1
2

This also appeared to be my only working solution. Thank you! – Koshux Sep 25 '17 at 08:07
You saved my day and This is the working solution for me finally. – Arshath Shameer Oct 04 '20 at 03:41

score 5 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 12 '14 at 23:16

5

'svn cleanup' worked for me. You might need to run this as Administrator.

answered Aug 12 '14 at 23:16

JieLi

109
1
2

You saved my life @JieL I have been trying to solve this for so long. Thanks so much – BoCyrill Dec 07 '16 at 12:21

score 4 · Answer 4 · edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

I tried the top solution by Sigurd V, but the SELECT query gave me errors. I'm using SVN 1.9.2 and SQLite 3.13.0.

To clarify, the file to download from SQLite site is "sqlite-tools-win32-x86-3130000.zip(1.51 MiB)"

Here is what I did with help form our software eng:

download this zip and copied sqlite3.exe into my working copy folder
in cmd line, connect to the svn database in this folder: sqlite3.exe .svn/wc.db
type command to SQLite to show what's locked up: sqlite> select * from work_queue;
type command to SQLite to delete the requests: sqlite> delete from work_queue;
repeat step3 to check nothing is locked.
everything is back normal now!

Screenshot showing step3/4/5:

score 3 · Answer 5 · answered Sep 29 '14 at 14:30

3

Close all files or programs using anything from your repository (this will unlock the svn to cleanup)
Run 'svn cleanup' against your working copy (show us the result if it errors our)

answered Sep 29 '14 at 14:30

Julián Gutiérrez Ostrovsky

43
3

score 1 · Answer 6 · answered Oct 15 '14 at 08:21

1

Open Totroise SVN Settings. Clear all data on Saved Data tab

answered Oct 15 '14 at 08:21

Evgeny Korolyuk

124
6

score 1 · Answer 7 · answered Apr 06 '15 at 13:33

I have seen a lot of threads and answer to the same question. What I saw most is "Run Cleanup" to the top level of the directory. But I have tried it most and Still I got the error. So What I did is to resolve it to the completion.

Install sqllite (32 bit binary for windows). Put the exe in the folder where the top level .svn directory resides.
sqlite .svn/wc.db “select * from work_queue”;
delete from work_queue;

Execute these three statements and after this run cleanup. It will run without any hassel.

score 1 · Answer 8 · answered Jul 24 '18 at 02:20

I got this error too, and I don't want to download sqlite. And finally I solve this by :

Close my eclipse.(this is important, without this I can't do the next step successfully)
On your project folder, right click, TortoiseSVN->Clean Up->OK

then I can update and commit without error!

score 0 · Answer 9 · answered Apr 22 '16 at 09:24

I am able to solve it in the following way.

1) Go to The directory where you are not able to successfully clean up via svn.(Root folder or child folder).

2) Select .svn folder in the directory, cut that folder and paste it in the separte drive or separate location (out of svn directory)

3) Now, go to the directory - right click and select TortoiseSVN->Repository-browser.

4) And,Checkout the folder. (It will not perform fresh checkout)

5) All your items will be versioned again, and it will repair the internal issue of svn, and problem should be solved.

score 0 · Answer 10 · edited Nov 08 '17 at 05:01

0

Insure that your working directory is not opened in any IDE.

If opened, close that and then do svn clean-up.

edited Nov 08 '17 at 05:01

Stephen Rauch

47,830
31
106
135

answered Nov 08 '17 at 04:38

Nitin Sharma

21
2

score 0 · Answer 11 · answered Oct 05 '20 at 06:00

0

In case someone else is also facing this issue he can use below options.

go to SVN -> cleanup (GUI) and select below 3 options.

It will definitely work.

answered Oct 05 '20 at 06:00

Tushar Srivastava

692
7
11

score -1 · Answer 12 · edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

-1

Run svn cleanup against your working copy (show us the result if it errors our)

or
Checkout a fresh working copy using svn checkout command and copy your changes from the broken wc to this one. Run commit again via the new working copy.

edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

Community

1
1

answered Mar 28 '14 at 14:18

bahrep

29,961
12
103
150

score -1 · Answer 13 · edited Mar 04 '16 at 21:05

-1

This happened to me - I didn't want to do anything as drastic as deleting my .svn file. However, svn cleanup in my IDE was not resolving the problem.

What worked for me:

Close IDE (don't know if this is needed, but it's a step I took)
Open File Explorer
Right click on your project
Select TortoiseSVN -> Clean up...

edited Mar 04 '16 at 21:05

e0k

6,961
2
23
30

answered Mar 04 '16 at 21:00

Leela

1
1

Svn error "Previous operation has not finished"

13 Answers13

Linked