Re: Revert & release lock

Hans-Emil Skogh wrote:

> (Running TortoiseSVN 1.4.0, Build 7958, yeah I know it’s old, but I’m
> not aware that this behaviour would have changed in any newer release…)

>
> Would it be possible/a good idea to add a checkbox “release locks of
> reverted files” to the revert dialog.
>
> I have noticed that often when I want to revert a file that I have a
> lock on, I also want to release the lock on that file so that others can
> edit it, and it would be nice if it could be done in one step.

Revert is a local operation. Releasing a lock is a remote operation. I
think we should keep those separate.
You might want to revert e.g. three files, but keep working on two or
one of them. Then your suggested checkbox wouldn't help at all. And I
guess that this is more likely to happen.

> Another quirk is that when I do “Release Lock” on a folder, all locks
> will automatically be released recursively. I would expect a dialog
> where I could choose what files to release the lock on, like the revert
> or add dialog.

http://issues.tortoisesvn.net/?do=details&id=331

Stefan

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