RE: Atomicity of locks and needs-lock

On Sat, 2006-04-29 at 17:32 -0400, Edward Harvey wrote:
> If someone locked the file, they must be thinking that your changes,
> whatever they are, won't be mergeable.

They are thinking *they* do not want to merge any changes you might
make. You might know better (because you know what change you're going
to make), or you might be in a better position to do such a merge.

> No user has reason to lock a file, unless they believe that you
> shouldn't work on it right now.

No, unless they believe you shouldn't *change* it right now.

You lock a file to protect yourself. You set svn:needs-lock on a file
to protect others.

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Received on Sat Apr 29 23:38:47 2006