Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> writes:
> Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
> > Even though it's very late in the game, there are some critical
> > decisions we need to make about locking features. They tend to
> > cascade out from each other.
> > * Fact: libsvn_fs allows already locks on non-existent paths. This
> > feature exists to be interoperable with generic DAV clients. In DAV
> > parlance, such things are called 'lock-null' resources. That is:
> > they're 'null' resources (they don't exist), but are still locked.
>
> Lock null resources are deprecated in RFC2518bis (see [1] and [2]),
> and as far as I can tell, no generic client requires them.
>
> What *is* needed is the ability to LOCK an unmapped resource. However,
> it's completely sufficient to implement this by creating an empty
> placew holder resource.
Well, that's certainly going to make useless a bunch of work I was
moments away from committing. :-(
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Received on Thu Mar 17 10:10:04 2005