svn help lock lock: Lock working copy paths or URLs in the repository, so that no other user can commit changes to them. usage: lock TARGET... Use --force to steal the lock from another user or working copy. Valid options: --targets arg : pass contents of file ARG as additional args -m [--message] arg : specify lock comment ARG -F [--file] arg : read lock comment from file ARG --force-log : force validity of log message source --encoding arg : treat value as being in charset encoding ARG --username arg : specify a username ARG --password arg : specify a password ARG --no-auth-cache : do not cache authentication tokens --non-interactive : do no interactive prompting --config-dir arg : read user configuration files from directory ARG --force : force operation to run