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Re: pre-lock.bat Failed in Repo browser

From: Daniel Becroft <djcbecroft_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 09:19:22 +1000

On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 8:25 AM, Michael Diers <mdiers_at_elego.de> wrote:

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> On 2011-03-10 11:21, Michael Diers wrote:
> > On 2011-03-10 08:23, Waseem Bokhari wrote:
> >> This script works fine in all scenarios except Anyone can Steal Lock
> when Unlock.
> >
> >>> Unable to Break lock through check for modifications Option
> >>> Unable to break lock through Repo browser
> >> BUT
> >> Only any user can Steal Lock when he tried to Get Lock and
> Check the below mentioned Option of Steal Lock.
> >
> > Waseem,
> >
> > I'm not following. Could you please express the scenarios in terms of
> > command line client operations? (Otherwise, dedicated TortoiseSVN forums
> > might be a better place to ask for assistance.)
> >
> > For instance, "Unable to break lock through Repo browser" translates to
> > "Unable to break lock through `svn unlock --force'".
>
> OK, there are two ways to get rid of locks owned by some other user:
>
> "stealing a lock" by running `svn lock --force'
>
> and
>
> "breaking a lock" by running `svn unlock --force'.
>
> If you want to hook these operations, you need a pre-lock hook script
> and a a pre-unlock hook script, respectively. Note that in both cases,
> the fact that the user specified "--force" is not communicated to the
> hook script.
>
> It appears you want to completely disallow "stealing" and "breaking" of
> locks. So, for both hook scripts, if the calling user is not identical
> to the lock owner, you want to fail the hook script.
>
> Does that sound about right?
>

In addition to this, locks are for a working-copy, not necessarily for a
user. It's possible for the same user to steal the lock that they already
hold in another working copy, and your script will let them.

Cheers,
Daniel B.
Received on 2011-03-15 00:20:12 CET

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