About the discussion of 'I need another overlay for 'locked by others''

Dear TortoiseSVN Team

  Abou this discussion of bellow, is any possible to get the file lock
information form repository

when we use 'SVN Update' command, and display a new overlay to emphasize it.
(or make it optionally)

** If we can set some new overlay to emphasize the file had been locked(or
modified but not commited)

by someone else at 'SVN Update', it will be more efficiency than specially
use 'Check for Modifications' I think.

There is no way to tell if a file has been locked by someone else, so I need
a new overlay to show that.

Unfortunately, that's not possible. Locking information is held in the
repository, so in order to refresh the page in explorer, we would have to
contact the repository. That would make explorer impossibly slow. Servers
often take several seconds to respond, sometimes minutes - do you really
want explorer to hang while that takes place, every time you open a
versioned folder?

A fundamental design feature of TortoiseSVN is that the repository is never
contacted except when explicitly requested by one of the context menu items.
Even with that restriction, it is still hard work maintaining a fast
response.

If you use locking to prevent simultaneous editing, then you should consider
using the svn:needs-lock property. Read the locking section in the manual to
learn how to use this property. That way, files in your working copy will be
read-only and have a grey overlay until you acquire a lock.

If you want to see which users have files locked in their working copies,
use the Check for Modifications dialog and click on the Check repository
button.

Best Regards.

zero5870
Received on 2008-01-17 11:16:39 CET