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Re: Locking: RFC: svn:needs-lock behaviors (Updated)

From: Philip Martin <philip_at_codematters.co.uk>
Date: 2005-02-03 02:51:27 CET

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

> On Feb 2, 2005, at 5:49 PM, Philip Martin wrote:
>
>> Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> writes:
>>
>>> To the best of my knowledge, you should be able to lock schedule-add
>>> files just fine. Locks apply to pathnames, not nodes or node-revs.
>>
>> The documentation in notes/ doesn't mention such locks, although it
>> doesn't exclude them either, is there a plan to implement this sort of
>> lock without node?
>
> The repository already allows locks on nonexistent paths. (DAV
> clients sometimes do this as a way of 'reserving' a path.)
>
> I'm not entirely sure that svn_ra_lock() allows it -- we should double
> check the three RA layers.
>
>> There are all sorts of corner cases: if I have a
>> schedule add directory 'foo' and I lock the path 'foo/bar' does that
>> stop someone else commiting a new 'foo'?
>
> From the repository's point of view, yes. It should enforce the lock.

What about:

  - Directory 'foo/' is schedule add so not in the repository.
  - I lock 'foo/bar', it's not in the repository either.

Can I also lock 'foo/zig'? As a user I would expect to be able to do
that.

Can some other user lock 'foo/zig' from their working copy? If that
is allowed then one of us is going to have a conflict. It might not
be another user, it might be me attempting to lock 'foo/zig' but from
a different working copy. How does the repository determine whether
locking 'foo/bar' and 'foo/zig' is a conflict?

If the repository cannot detect the conflict I suppose it could
require all locks under 'foo/' to be supplied when using any one of
them. At least then the problem would be detected at commit time and
and the committer would need to break any locks not held.

-- 
Philip Martin
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