> -----Original Message-----
> From: Johan Appelgren [mailto:johan.appelgren@gmail.com]
> Sent: 09 February 2006 10:05
> To: users@tortoisesvn.tigris.org
> Subject: Re: Re: Lock not showing
>
>
> On 2/9/06, Shakespeare, Simon (Pensions)
> <Simon.Shakespeare@capita.co.uk> wrote:
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Stefan Küng [mailto:tortoisesvn@gmail.com]
> > > Sent: 08 February 2006 17:17
> > > To: users@tortoisesvn.tigris.org
> > > Subject: Re: Lock not showing
> > >
> > >
> > > Shakespeare, Simon (Pensions) wrote:
> > > > Hi - Has anyone had a problem with the locks not showing in the
> > > > working copy. I'm using TortoiseSVN 1.3.1, Build 5521 - 32
> > > Bit & have
> > > > tried doing a cleanup, update, check for mods (repository) but
> > > > nothing seems to make the lock show. The repo browser
> tells me it's
> > > > locked by me.
> > >
> > > You can't see locks in the working copy!
> > > All you can see is the 'needs lock' overlay, but that is
> > > shown for files
> > > which are read-only.
> > > If you want to see the locks in your working copy, use
> the "check for
> > > modifications" dialog.
> > >
> >
> > Sorry bit confused here - I tried again this morning -
> locked one file by me then cleared the
> > authentication data & locked the next file as someone else.
> I see the "SVN Lock Owner" column
> > in explorer & it correctly reflects the lock owner against
> both files. I assumed then that this
> > info. is held only in the cache but having killed the
> TSVNCache.exe process, closed explorer &
> > starting again I see the lock owners reflected correctly
> again. Now I assumed it got this info
> > from the repository & put it in the cache but I'm really
> not sure as sometimes it doesn't show
> > & sometimes it does.
>
> When you lock a file in subversion a lock token will be stored in the
> working copy you used to lock the file. So each working copy knows
> what locks it holds.
>
> What you can't see however are locks created in other working copies.
> For this you need to use the "Check for modifications" dialog as
> stated by the previous response.
>
> Read more about subversion locks in the nightly build of the
> Subversion book for Subversion 1.2, found here:
> <http://svnbook.red-bean.com/>. See the section called Locking under
> chapter 7 Advanced Topics.
That clears it up for me - Thanks a lot.
>
> /Johan
>
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