> From: Julian Foad [mailto:julianfoad@btopenworld.com]
> Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 3:32 PM
> >>>2) Explicit edit support
>
> Kumaran Santhanam wrote:
> >
> > Same comment as 1) above: I'm hoping that it should not take
> > much code to do this in a basic way:
> >
> > - svn edit is simply 'chmod +w FILE'
> > - svn revert has to do 'chmod -w FILE'
> > - svn commit has to do 'chmod -w FILE'
> > - svn update has to bring it in as read-only
> > - svn status has to check file permissions to get the 'U' tag
> >
> > If there is anything I'm missing, do let me know. Again, this is
> > a feature I need right away, so I'm probably going to have to
> > make the patch, at least on a private copy.
>
> I am interested to know why explicit editing is useful and important to you.
>
> You appear to be describing the sort of interface that would be used with an
> exclusive locking mechanism, but not proposing to design or implement the actual
> locking (which needs to involve the server) yet.
For that see: notes/locking-plan.txt
Sander
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Received on Thu Aug 28 15:37:15 2003