RE: Is that possible to enforce lock-modify-unlock model in a repository

Is that easy to do so as I am a layman to svn- I just want to get it working :)

William

-----Original Message-----
From: brane@xbc.nu [mailto:brane@xbc.nu]
Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005 1:48 PM
To: William Yeung
Cc: users@subversion.tigris.org
Subject: Re: Is that possible to enforce lock-modify-unlock model in a
repository

William Yeung wrote:

> Dear All,
> I am a newbie in subversion, while I found the facilities are great
> (especially with TortoiseSVN), I have an issue here- my team are more
> used to lock-modify-unlock mechanism, and I have bad habits on forgot
> to check in source code, so this is more suitable for us :P Is there
> anyway to enforce such policy within an repository?

You can't really enforce it, but you can get pretty close if you set the
svn:needs-lock property on every file in the repository. Autoprops can
help here.

-- Brane
Received on Fri Aug 19 08:50:24 2005