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Re: Feature request: Warning on get lock

From: Rainer Müller <mueller_rainer_at_gmx.de>
Date: 2006-04-29 00:25:02 CEST

Edward Harvey wrote:
> So I just want to be clear on this --
>
> Basically, everyone is saying (Jody, Sven, Simon, Hans-Emil, Lubbe)
>
> If you don't want someone else to work on a file, presumably because you
> are going to work on it extensively, you must first manually set the
> needs-lock property. You must then manually commit. You must then
> manually obtain lock.

You forgot: you have to force all users to update their working copies or they
won't notice that the svn:needs-lock property is set on this file. And how do
you want to do this?
Subversion is designed to be used offline most of the time, meaning: no access
to the repository. You can't forbid other users to work on a specific file
without setting svn:needs-lock from the beginning, so it is populated to their
workin copies, and not when you want to lock it.

> When you are done, you must manually release lock. You must then
> manually remove the needs-lock property (since it is no longer
> necessary). You must then manually commit.
>
> And nobody is willing to accept any automation of this process.

I don't see any advantage in this process over normal lock without setting
svn:needs-lock.

Rainer

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