Re: [locking] out-of-dateness checking during lock

On Sat, 2004-12-04 at 11:14, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
> * I'm worried that if an admin has post-lock and post-unlock hook
> scripts, there's going to be 2 useless emails generated whenever
> somebody even *attempts* to lock an out-of-date wc file.

We can make this case much less common by checking for out-of-dateness,
grabbing the lock, checking again, and releasing the lock if the second
test fails.

> I know that the idea of 'svn lock' automatically doing updates was shot
> down weeks ago, with people screaming about how bad it is to mix
> subcommand concepts together. But now it seems the only alternative is
> to make the 'svn lock' command behave a bit schitzo: "lock the file...
> oh wait, nevermind, unlock it!" Is that behavior the lesser of two
> evils?

Yes, by a mile.

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Received on Sat Dec 4 17:37:22 2004