Re: Fixing issue 644

Philip Martin <philip@codematters.co.uk> writes:

> Aside from the implementation, a design problem with this approach is
> that it delays the conflict detection until the deltas are sent. I
> thought subversion was meant to detect conflicts before sending all
> the deltas, to avoid the case where large amounts of data get sent
> only for a conflict to be detected near the end. This means that
> delaying the conflict detection until the PUT is too late, isn't it?
> In which case we are back to calling PROPFIND for added files.

Hmm, I'm confused. Why aren't we detecting the conflict when the
client first tries to CHECKOUT the resource into the activity? That
should happen before the PUT, no?

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Received on Fri Apr 19 22:15:12 2002