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Re: [TSVN] Locked overlay

From: SteveKing <steveking_at_gmx.ch>
Date: 2005-04-13 20:28:52 CEST

Molle Bestefich wrote:
> SteveKing wrote:
>
>>- file is readonly
>>But we don't really need an overlay for that - the explorer already has
>>a built-in column provider to show the file attributes.
>
>
> Doesn't count.

It counts.

> - Nobody has that lame column turned on, because it's basically useless.

Well, it will be once you have locking in place.

> - Forcing users to turn it on when we're communicating everything else
> with overlays is wrong.
> - Just because a file is set read-only by svn when it's
> svn:needs-lock, doesn't mean that a read-only file by implication also
> has svn:needs-lock. Those are different things.

I know. But you don't have readonly files inside a working copy unless
the svn:needs-lock property is set (Subversion would error out if a file
is readonly on every update).

Stefan

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