Re: [TSVN] Locked overlay

SteveKing wrote:
> Molle Bestefich wrote:
>> 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.
>
> It counts.

It doesn't, for the reason cited below.

>> - Nobody has that lame column turned on, because it's basically useless.
>
> Well, it will be once you have locking in place.

Reason cited below.

>> - Forcing users to turn it on when we're communicating everything else
>> with overlays is wrong.

Well, let's get a little meat on the discussion...

>> - 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 know. But you don't have readonly files inside a working copy unless
> the svn:needs-lock property is set (Subversion would error out if a file
> is readonly on every update).

Taking over an attribute that's used for a ton of things and then
relying on it to never change beyond what you do to it - that's just
broken by design.

I surely hope you're not serious that SVN will die if a file is read-only.

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Received on Wed Apr 13 20:35:31 2005