Re: Revised Proposal: Improved locking implementation for fsfs

Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman@collab.net> writes:

> I think what they're saying is: "we'd like to *require* locks on
> every file in the repository before editing", right? Not that they
> literally want to attach an active lock to every file in the
> repository at the same time.
>
> In other words, when they import a project, the first thing they'll do
> is attach the new 'svn:needs-lock' property to every file.

Once svn:needs-lock is set on all files any global change, an updated
copyright say, will require all the files to be locked. I think it's
safe to say that some users will set svn:needs-lock on all files and
will then attempt to attach an active lock to every file.

-- 
Philip Martin
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