I've googled the main svn lists and haven't found a detailed explanation of
what 1.2's locking is and isn't. Can you provide a pointer please?
On 4/13/05, SteveKing <steveking@gmx.ch> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> While trying out the locking feature I gathered some more information.
> And a 'locked' overlay seems more and more something we shouldn't do:
>
> - the working copy only has the information if a file is locked by the
> working copy itself. No information about a file locked by someone else!
> - if the svn:needs-lock property is set, the file get's the readonly
> flag set, i.e. apps can't save such files anymore (as long as the
> working copy doesn't have the lock on such a file).
>
> The only thing what such an overlay could show is:
> - file is readonly
> But we don't really need an overlay for that - the explorer already has
> a built-in column provider to show the file attributes.
>
> So what do you guys think? Should we implement a 'locked' overlay at all?
>
> Stefan
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Received on Wed Apr 13 20:04:06 2005