"Patrick Dean Rusk" <PRusk@foliage.com> writes:
> "C. Michael Pilato" <cmpilato@collab.net> wrote:
> > IMO, this whole feature is a bust if I have to wait until after I've
> > uploaded the changes to my 20-Mb Word Document to find out that my
> > commit is denied because someone has that file locked. (Ben, I know
> > you agree with me ... just wanted to publicly state this opinion.)
>
> Perhaps this is moving into client-side issues too early, but it would be
> handy if an update would make read-only a file that someone else has locked.
> That would help someone to not make the mistake above.
(FWIW, I don't think we can fully have the server-side discussion
without talking about client-side UI anyway, so...)
> As a companion thought, it would be nice to be able to add a property to a
> file that marks it as needing to be explicitly locked in order to be
> committed. That would mean that whenever you update the file, it would be
> marked read-only, even if no one has yet locked it.
This is a feature I wanted, too.
I seem to recall others wanting the opposite -- read-only everything
unless you have the lock. But I think that's silly, and would make
Subversion into just another SourceSafe.
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Received on Fri May 21 21:30:54 2004