Re: Locking UI comments

Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman@collab.net> writes:

> I was describing what might happen in a world where 'lock' and
> 'update' are separate actions, and have no mutual requirement or
> dependence at all. My fear is that in such a world, users forget to
> 'update' before locking, so that they end up locking an out-of-date
> file.
>
> But your recommendation above fixes that.

Thinking a bit more, if you had suggested the locking command be

   $ svn update --lock foo.c

rather than

   $ svn lock foo.c

I think I would have accepted it without a question. Appearances are
everything! I guess that means I don't really object to "svn lock"
running update.

-- 
Philip Martin
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