[JENKINS-9647] Try cleanup before emptying locked ws

The default behaviour of Jenkins is to empty a workspace and start all over, when the workingcopy is locked. In most cases an svn cleanup could solve the lock.

I'm working on a project where we have a 5.4 GB working copy, and our repo is litterally on the other side of the world. In such a case you don't want to do a new checkout (taking at least 2 hours), when "svn cleanup" would have been sufficient.

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Originally reported by excel20, imported from: Try cleanup before emptying locked ws

• status: Open
  
• priority: Major
  
• component(s): subversion-plugin
  
• resolution: Unresolved
  
• votes: 19
  
• watchers: 3
  
• imported: 20251212-090250
  

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The default behaviour of Jenkins is to empty a workspace and start all over, when the workingcopy is locked. In most cases an svn cleanup could solve the lock.


I'm working on a project where we have a 5.4 GB working copy, and our repo is litterally on the other side of the world. In such a case you don't want to do a new checkout (taking at least 2 hours), when "svn cleanup" would have been sufficient.