Re: [Issue 533] New - implement reserved checkouts

On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 08:29:46PM +0200, Branko Cibej wrote:
> Karl Fogel wrote:
> >Branko Cibej <brane@xbc.nu> writes:
> >> 1. A lock must not create a new revision.
> >
> >Is this really a requirement? I used to think so, but now I'm not so
> >sure.
>
> Yes, it is.

I would agree. There are a bunch of tools that will operate against SVN
repositories. I don't want to make *every* tool need to deal with a bunch of
"lock this or that" revisions. That is simply adding more work all around.

>...
> I don't like this kind of reasoning at all. "We can hack this and tweak
> that and special-case the other," and presumably nobody will notice that
> we screwed up the design yet again? We have too much tweaking and
> special-casing in the code as it is. :-/
>
> (I'm referring to your suggestion to tweak update, too.)

You bet. When Karl said, "we can also tweak update". Holy crap. Where does
it end?

Down with locks as revisions!! Rally, troops!!

:-)

Cheers,
-g

-- 
Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
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