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Re: Some questions...

From: Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman_at_collab.net>
Date: 2003-07-16 17:51:31 CEST

kfogel@collab.net writes:

> > 5. How do I lock a binary file? (locks are really needed for binaries
> > otherwise stuff gets lost)
>
> I don't understand the parenthetical claim, but in any case,
> Subversion does not support locking right now. It may someday, but
> that's post-1.0.

Regarding Tony's parentheses:

In Subversion, if your locally-modified binary file needs to be
patched during "svn update", the svn client will simply produce three
full files in your working copy. It won't attempt to do a contextual
merge.

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