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Re: permissions to update a directory

From: Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman_at_collab.net>
Date: 2004-08-04 19:31:52 CEST

On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 08:05, Erwan Lacoste wrote:
> Hi all,
> Why is it that when I update a directory in a working copy, I need to have
> the rights for all the "brothers" directories?
> eg :
> workcopy/dir1
> workcopy/dir2
>
> 'svn up workcopy/dir1'

The update needs an "anchor" and a "target": in this case, the "anchor"
is 'workcopy', target is 'dir1'. The anchor needs to be locked.

> Is this something I can do to bypass this restriction?

cd workcopy/dir1
svn up

...in that situation, "anchor" is '.', and there's no target. The
anchor will be locked successfully.

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