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

On Mar 22, 2005, at 1:08 PM, Brad Kittenbrink wrote:

> 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.

But now you're cutting off the nose to spite the face. Lots of files
are un-mergeable... if they're empty files, then they're useless. What
if I need them to build my project? Or run the project? It's no
longer a functional working copy, it's a 'half-copy'. :-)

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Received on Tue Mar 22 20:39:49 2005