Re: Atomicity of locks and needs-lock

On 4/29/06, Molle Bestefich <molle.bestefich@gmail.com> wrote:
> Edward Harvey wrote:
> > > You have a good point.
> > > It's not obvious to users that they cannot lock files if it
> > > does not have "needs-lock" set.
> >
> > Actually, you can lock files even if they don't have needs-lock.
>
> Yeah ok, you can.
> Only it's extremely dumb to do that, that's what I meant.

Could you please find the other articles before posting please?! It's
NOT dumb to do so, just not what *you* think is logical.

> I'll have to try and find some of the discussions Erik talk about,
> because currently I cannot fathom a scenario where you are unable to
> apply svn:needs-lock on the binary files in your repo (or would want
> not to)...

http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2006-04/0933.shtml

bye,

Erik.
Received on Sat Apr 29 19:21:01 2006