Re: Access right question

On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 10:04:18AM -0500, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
> "Sander Striker" <striker@apache.org> writes:
>
> > > While this seems to work well in most cases, I noticed that Berkeley DB
> > > adds log information even in case of a "checkout"! (I can't see any
> > > reason why this is so).
> >
> > Because a checkout causes a _write_.
>
> This has become a FAQ as well. I should write it up.
>
> Everybody listen: checkouts and updates are produced by having the
> server compare two trees. One tree is the HEAD revision (usually),
> and the other is a temporary transaction-tree -- thus the need for
> write access.

Just curious, does this also happen with svn switch?

Sander

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Received on Fri Jun 20 19:16:33 2003