Re: exclusive binary fiel access?

On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 09:25:48AM -0800, Terry Kilshaw wrote:
> We currently use CVS with Tortoise to manage our Filemaker
> applications. Our average Filemaker solution has about 45 Filemaker
> files, some supporting text files. and other binaries such as
> Filemaker plugins. CVS's Edit command is used to provide a fairly
> primitive, but effective, check-in check-out system. With only 3 of us
> working on the code, it does the job.
>
> Subversion looks like an interesting alternative to CVS. I
> particularly like the concept of binary diffs used to store minimal
> delta's for binary file changes.
>
> My question is, how can an operation like ours work with Subversion?
> Subversion does not appear to have anything like CVS Edit to gain
> exclusive control of a file. I know that Subversion is designed like
> CVS to allow concurrent changes to source files, but that, of course,
> is not useful as far as binaries are concerned.

First of all this message probably belongs on the users list. Locking
has been a requested feature. It's on the todo list for situations like
this. I'm not sure when someone will get to it.

-- 
Ben Reser <ben@reser.org>
http://ben.reser.org
"Conscience is the inner voice which warns us somebody may be looking."
- H.L. Mencken
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