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[Fwd: Re: Locking branch has been merged [Re: svn commit: r13571]]

From: Brad Kittenbrink <brad_at_windwardmark.net>
Date: 2005-03-22 20:08:28 CET

sorry, forgot to cc the list

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Subject: Re: Locking branch has been merged [Re: svn commit: r13571]
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 14:07:33 -0500
From: Brad Kittenbrink <brad@windwardmark.net>
To: Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman@collab.net>
References: <200503220532.j2M5WLS16319@morbius.ch.collab.net>
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Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
>
> On Mar 22, 2005, at 11:07 AM, Brad Kittenbrink wrote:
>> Is there a way (or a way planned) to require a user to hold a lock
>> token in their wc in order to read a file?
>
>
> How would this work? How could any part of Subversion possibly prevent
> some random editor from reading a file or changing the file's permissions?
>

The only way I would imagine it is to not actually put the data there
until the lock is acquired. For example, store the unlocked file in the
wc as a zero-length read-only stub file or something. When the user
acquires the lock, copy the contents over from .svn/text-base/ to allow
read/write access.

Obviously most users of locking would probably not want this
functionality, but if configured properly, it seems like a way to
enforce serialization for hijacking editors.

-Brad

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