"Brian W. Fitzpatrick" <fitz@collab.net> wrote on 10/13/2004 04:30:59 PM:
> On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 14:13, Justin Erenkrantz wrote:
> > --On Wednesday, October 13, 2004 1:22 PM -0400 Mark Benedetto King
> > <mbk@lowlatency.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I think it should be atomic, in the following way:
> > >
> > > Client -> Server
> > >
> > > LOCK /foo.c @ r1234
> > >
> > > Server -> Client
> >
> > FWIW, that won't mesh at all with WebDAV's LOCK model. In WebDAV, you
just
> > lock the entire resource not a specific version. So, at the very
least, if we
> > tried to lock a resource/version pair, we'd likely lock out most
WebDAV
> > clients from participating. And, that'd be real bad, IMHO. -- justin
>
> I don't understand the utility of locking a path at a specific
> revision--you can't edit the contents of a revision.
>
> Am I missing something?
Plus, we have established that you can only lock the youngest revision
anyway, or more specifically your WC has to have the youngest revision.
In PVCS, you create a branch by locking a non-HEAD revision. When you
check-in, that creates the branch at that revision. So, again in PVCS,
you can allow multiple locks on a file, but only one per revision. There
is also an option to only allow one lock on the entire file.
None of this of course applies to Subversion as it has a different
branching model. So, I agree, you would essentially acquire a lock on a
file, not a specific revision of a file. A lock in a branch would
essentially be a different file so different users could still lock the
same file in trunk and a branch.
Mark
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