[TSVN] How to mark files as "work in process"?

Hi!

I'm currently evaluating CVS and Subversion for deployment in the R&D-Department I'm working in. We have only a small codebase with very few projects and we are only three persons working with that so I could convince my superior that we could easily use an open source solution. Fine. After comparing CVS with Subversion I thought Subversion would be the better choice, especially with since TortoiseSVN is as userfriendly as TortoiseCVS is (which I' using at home for myself).

Problem:
My superiors demands that the version management we will be using has the possibility to tell the user that a file is in use by someone other. With (Tortoise)CVS you can activate something like "check out write protected" and then de-protect the files for editing -- with that you can see if someone is working with a file. He doesn't want this lock to be a true lock, he just wants a possibility to see if someone other is working at that file already.

Well. I've taken a look into the Subversion book and I've read the online help for TortoiseSVN and haven't found a feature which could satisfy the demand of my superior.

So, just to be sure I haven't overlooked something: Is there a possibility to solve the descriped problem with Subversion and especially with TortoiseSVN or do I have to propose the use of CVS?

Sincerely
Maik Schmidt

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Received on Tue Mar 22 16:51:10 2005