Re: svn commit: r14031 - trunk/subversion/clients/cmdline

On Apr 11, 2005, at 12:59 PM, Brian W. Fitzpatrick wrote:

> The salient point here (a point that we need to make abundantly clear
> when we write the documentation for the locking functionality) is that
> there are two parts to locking: The actual locking part (which can be
> enforced to varying degrees by the server), and the
> advisory/communication part (accomplished by setting:needs-lock on a
> file).
>
> Until we get this documented, I think that we're going to see more
> misunderstandings like yours--thanks for your patience. :)

I think what threw me off is that svn:needs-lock implies that you "need
to lock the file"... but you actually don't *need* to lock the file,
you are just *supposed* to lock the file.

I assume also that you can choose to lock any file you wish, wether it
has the property svn:needs-lock or not. Right?

Making this clear in the Subversion book is obvious of course. I would
say that it should be stated in the output of 'svn help lock/unlock' as
well, since that is the documentation that is most likely to be read.
(I haven't installed 1.2rc1 so I don't know what the help has to say
for the locking commands.)

Scott

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Received on Mon Apr 11 20:11:45 2005