Re: Clean Up & Read-Only Files

My responses are interleaved below.

On Jan 7, 2008 1:09 PM, Andy Levy <andy.levy_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> But what if I deliberately set a file read-only, and don't want it
> un-set? Software shouldn't circumvent my wishes like this.

You don't do this. Read-only property for versioned files is reserved for a
specific meaning to Subversion, that is, to represent locked items. There's
really no valid reason that I can think of to break this meaning through
some form of inconsistency. Having said that, I still see no reason why
having the cleanup feature do what I previously explained be a bad idea.

Cleanup, like most things, is probably done by the Subversion
> libraries themselves and thus you'd have to lobby for such a change
> there.

Good point. I had forgotten about this small fact. I've posted a similar
inquiry on the SVN mailing list. Thanks.
Received on 2008-01-07 21:45:13 CET