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Re: [TSVN] Locked overlay

From: Mark Phippard <MarkP_at_softlanding.com>
Date: 2005-04-13 20:25:57 CEST

Molle Bestefich <molle.bestefich@gmail.com> wrote on 04/13/2005 02:23:05
PM:

> SteveKing wrote:
> > - 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.
>
> Doesn't count.
> - Nobody has that lame column turned on, because it's basically useless.
> - Forcing users to turn it on when we're communicating everything else
> with overlays is wrong.
> - Just because a file is set read-only by svn when it's
> svn:needs-lock, doesn't mean that a read-only file by implication also
> has svn:needs-lock. Those are different things.

I do not think a file that lives in a WC could have the read-only flag set
without also having the needs-lock property. AFAIK, svn used to roll over
and die if it encountered a read-only, but versioned file in your WC. It
would certainly never make a file read-only on its own.

Mark

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