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Re: file locking and binary files

From: Garrett Rooney <rooneg_at_electricjellyfish.net>
Date: 2002-11-15 18:55:27 CET

Clint Chapman wrote:

>>From what I've read, it appears subversion doesn't support file locking. Is
>this the case?
>
>One of the huge advantages of subversion over CVS (at least from my
>perspective) is that it stores binary files as differences. CVS' only
>drawback is that it makes a complete copy for every commit. One word
>changes in 30MB binary file cause the repository to explode.
>
>So, subversion solves this problem - good stuff. But it seems to force
>merging over file-locking. This just isn't possible for most binary files.
>This seems to suggest that file locking for binary files would make the
>support for binary files complete. Are there any plans to implement the
>same sort of edit, unedit file locking in subversion?
>
>Maybe I'm looking in the wrong place. Any alternate suggestions for general
>purpose revision control are appreciated. CAD files are what I'm worried
>about right now, but I would like something that works for Word, Adobe, and
>ideally source files (I use cvs for that now).
>

right now, there is no support for file locking in subversion.

in the future (most likely post-1.0), there will be some kind of support
for it, but it's not there yet.

-garrett

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