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Re: Locking consensus(es) so far

From: Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman_at_red-bean.com>
Date: 2004-10-13 23:58:07 CEST

On Oct 13, 2004, at 5:44 PM, Justin Erenkrantz wrote:

> --On Wednesday, October 13, 2004 2:24 PM -0700 Justin Erenkrantz
> <justin@erenkrantz.com> wrote:
>
>> As I've pointed out earlier, lots of reasons. It's a file that could
>> have a lot of contention or needs to be modified in such a way to
>> ensure
>> no two people commit to it at the same time. But, I wouldn't assume
>> that
>> svn:needs-lock (or must-lock) is only set on unmergable files. --
>> justin
>
> Here's a real use case to ponder: Dreamweaver's WebDAV interface
> requires that all files (HTML, etc, etc.) be checked out before
> editing. However, the Subversion clients (say a part of the group
> wasn't interested in using Dreamweaver) would need the 'svn:must-lock'
> property set on those files in order to know that the files must be
> locked before editing them in order to play well with the Dreamweaver
> users. -- justin
>

So, why would a group of people uninterested in Dreamweaver start
editing those files, or even care if they're locked at any given time?
:-)

And beyond that, assuming Dreamweaver files are unmergeable, doesn't it
make sense for the admin to set 'svn:needs-lock' on them anyway? That
way, even when the Dreamweaver folks aren't using Dreamweaver, they're
less likely to accidentally change the file contents.

What's the problem here?

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