Re: feature request remote locking

Wim Bonjean wrote:

> I read a lot of posts about the remote locking feature that is missing,
> and what the reason is.
>
> But I do not understand why it is not implemented as follows:
> (Subversion after all does support this.)
>
> Why not update the lock icons and the remote lock owner in the browser
> when an update or a modification check is performed,
>
> off course it has to be cached then, but why not put an option in the
> preferences that enables/disables this feature.
>
> Or even better, why not have an option that on every access to a svn
> folder automatically does a modification check, and updates the icons,
> status, remote lock owners,…

Do you pay for my bodyguard? Because I will need one - people will try
to kill me if I implemented something like this :)

Seriously: we're still improving the caching of the *local* status to
avoid slowing down the explorer too much. If we would contact a
repository on every access to a working copy, you couldn't really work
with the explorer anymore (and all "File Open/Save" dialogs in every
application you have).
And no, even with a lightning fast LAN, this would still make you throw
TSVN away because you can't use any application anymore due to the
immense slowdown.

> In that way users that have svn running on a fast intranet environment
> can make use of this and have a much better usability.
>
> I think this would be a fine solution, as it seems this is a feature
> request that a lot of users are asking for, for a long time now.

It doesn't really matter if 'a lot of users' ask for it. If it can't be
done in a way that doesn't hog the system, I won't do it. And even those
users asking for it would then realize that they'd rather not have this
feature but be able to use the explorer.

Stefan

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