Re: svn unlock all files locked by a specific user
Branko Čibej <[email protected]> Wed, 19 Mar 2025 19:36:13 +0100
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.version-control.subversion.user |
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| Organization | The Apache Software Foundation |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On 19. 3. 25 19:10, Sean McBride wrote: > Hi all, > > Is there an easy way to force unlock all files currently locked by a specific user? > > Consider an employee that leaves, and needing to then unlock anything she still had locked. You'll have to script it. You can use 'svn ls -R -v URL' to get the contents of the repository, and call 'svn unlock --force' for every locked file. Even better, user 'svn ls -R --xml --incremental' and send the output through an XML parser filter to extract the URLs of the locked files. -- Brane