You can actually configure CVS to work this way also: you need 'cvs edit' or
(C-x q in Emacs VC Mode) to set a file to editable (sets the write attribute
and registers it in the history - if so configured). It's the way I have an
old CVS server set up. It's not really a problem at all (at least for any
of us it wasn't)
Now, we _very_ rarely use that repository. I would have long ago converted
the it to svn, but for the life of me could not get svn to compile on that
machine (very old, AIX 4.1.2, gcc 3.8.x, ...).
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 3:16 PM, Ben Collins-Sussman
<sussman_at_red-bean.com>wrote:
> I have no thread handy, but it's been discussed over and over in the
> wc-ng design as an 'eventual feature' to be implemented. It's
> basically imitating perforce: the entire working copy is read-only.
> When you want to edit a file, you run 'svn edit file', which makes the
> file read-write and registers this fact in sqlite. Then, when you run
> 'svn status', 'svn diff', 'svn commit', etc. there's no need to crawl
> the tree trying to discover local edits; you just ask the database
> which files to stat. It makes things shockingly fast, and while it
> sounds horribly annoying and restrictive to a veteran CVS or SVN user,
> it's actually a really nice way to work.
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 4:28 PM, Neels J Hofmeyr <neels_at_elego.de> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
> >> Or, just wait for the working-copy rewrite (in progress now) to
> >> implement an 'svn edit' command. No more crawling the working copy at
> >> all.
> >
> > Say, what?
> > Got a pointer for me that explains it?
> >
> > Thanks
> > ~Neels
> >
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