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Resolving “Failed to get lock on destination repos” in svnsync

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If you are getting the following error during svnsync:

Failed to get lock on destination repos, currently held by 'computername:uuid'

There may be a stale lock left on the repository.

If you are sure — after waiting for a short while — that nobody is accessing the repository, you can override the lock by adding the following parameter to the svnsync command:

--steal-lock