SCM Error Help

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I have just started using xcode for all of my C++ programs in class and at work, all they do is work with a team foundation server from microsoft. One of my develpoment friends mentioned that xcode has Source Control Management and that I should give it a try... and I did. I went through the necessary steps to create a repository(with success), add the project to the repository(with success), and check out the project to begin working on it(also with success). My only problem is when I try to commit the entire project(at the bottom of the SCM menu), I get this error:
"Error: 155005 (Working copy not locked; this is probably a bug, please report) Description: Commit failed (details follow):
Error: 155005 (Working copy not locked; this is probably a bug, please report) Description: Directory '/Users/jackinthebox6386/Documents/Class Stuff/C++ Projects/Project 4/build/Project 4.build/Project 4.pbxindex/.svn' containing working copy admin area is missing"
I have tried deleting everything and starting over and also, try to find and replace the .svn folder, both with no luck. Anybody have any good ideas?

Answer 1

Jack--
Sirjacksinurbox wrote:
Error: 155005 (Working copy not locked; this is probably a bug, please report) Description: Directory '/Users/jackinthebox6386/Documents/Class Stuff/C++ Projects/Project 4/build/Project 4.build/Project 4.pbxindex/.svn' containing working copy admin area is missing"
It looks to me like Xcode is trying to check in your build directory, but it's either not under version control, or the previously version-controlled build directory got blown away, along with its .svn directory.
The easiest way to deal with this is to not put your build directory under version control. Since you should be able to recreate it with a simple re-compile, it's unnecessary anyway.
I do it in the global-ignores section of my computer's Subversion configuration file. That file's located at ~/.subversion/config on your system. Open it up with a text editor and look for this section headed with "miscellany". Assuming that you've not already edited that file, that section will look like this:
### Section for configuring miscelleneous Subversion options.
[miscellany]
### Set global-ignores to a set of whitespace-delimited globs
### which Subversion will ignore in its 'status' output, and
### while importing or adding files and directories.
# global-ignores = *.o *.lo *.la #*# .*.rej *.rej .*~ *~ .#* .DS_Store
You can either uncomment the "global-ignores" line (remove the "#" from the front) and add to it or (like I do) just create a new one just before the one that's there:
global-ignores = build *.mode1 *.pbxuser *~.nib .DS_Store *~
That makes Subversion ignore the build directory entirely, along with a couple of other files that don't need to be under version control. I'm not entirely sure of what will happen once you add this to the config file, though, so you may have to check out your project again. At that point, though, it should be ignoring your build folder.
Note that "mode1" is "mode-one", not the word "model". In other words, the last character is the number "1".
charlie