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Re: Feature request - Get Lock Error message when locking failed

From: Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2008 17:43:02 +0200

Smirre wrote:
> Hi,
>
> here's a suggestion which could help users who have to lock documents
> before amending them.
>
> When a user requests a lock and the lock request failed due to someone
> else having the lock, the error message only displays the user id who
> has the lock. I think it would be helpful in also displaying the Lock
> comment as can be seen on the Check for modifications window.
>
> In our environment the users have to put their name in the lock
> comment so that anyone else can see who has the lock in the Check for
> modifications window, but this results in two actions: 1) attempting
> to get the lock and 2) checking who has the lock when the acquiring of
> the lock fails.

Can you please ask for this feature request on the Subversion mailing
list? I think it would be best if the error message itself contained the
lock message instead of TSVN fetching it after receiving the error.

Stefan

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