[SVN-4806] svn cleanup fails on read-only files (windows)

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.10.2
• Fix Version/s: 1.12.0
• Component/s: cmdline client

Environment

Windows 7, using the 1.10.3 command line tools (from TortoiseSVN).

• Assignee: Branko Čibej
• Reporter: Mark Cooke
• Created: 15/Feb/19 09:21
• Updated: 21/Feb/19 20:41
• Resolved: 21/Feb/19 18:31

Description

Discussed on mailing list: https://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2019-02/0024.shtml

Our build script copies files and folders into the source tree before building the application and installer applications.  The copied-in files and folders are set as read-only by another script and svn:ignored:

root
 > folder 1 (svn:ignore *)
    > folder 2
       > folder 3

When I run svn cleanup using both remove flags, svn fails with the error:

svn: E720005: Can't remove directory 'root\folder1\folder2\folder3': Access is denied.

My workaround is to add to my script to clear the read-only flag before running svn cleanup.

As Brane replied:

 Yes, it's worth fixing, because it's a bug. If we have the --remove-unversioned option and it happens not to work because we fail to clear the read-only bit on files within unversioned directories, well, we should fix that.