Ronald Cannes wrote:
> What I would REALLY like is a lease based system where person A gets
> exclusive access to a resource for a spesific amount of time, such as 2
> hours or a day. For instance, to obtain exclusive access for 30 minutes, I'd
> like to do a "svn lock <url> -t 30m". Without the "-t" option, the
> exclusiveness would not expire until I commited. I would also like the
> ability to do a "svn unlock <url>" to force the lease to expire.
>
> After the lease period, person B can get to the resource. If person A still
> has the resource (he forgot to commit before the lease time expired), he
> gets an error. He didn't commit within the time he requested so now it's his
> problem - now he has to merge/resolve when person B has commited, but that's
> how I would like it to work.
Sounds like this could be implemented with the combination of a commit hook
and a bit of shell + crontab programming.
> I guess leasing should only work on files beeing tagged "leasable", using
> PROPSET, perhaps.
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Received on Wed Sep 3 10:28:37 2003