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Re: Lock icon overlay normal (green) instead readonly (grey)

From: Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 22:04:06 +0100

On 12.11.2012 08:59, George Stein wrote:
> After upgrading from tsvn-1.6.15 to 1.7.10 the behavior for the lock icon overlay is different:
>
> If the svn:needs-lock property is set but has no value then in 1.7.10 the normal (green) overlay icon is displayed instead of the readonly (grey) one.
>
> The Subversion book says about svn:needs-lock
> [1] http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn.ref.properties.html#svn.ref.properties.versioned-props:
> If present on a file, tells the client to make the file read-only in the working copy, as a reminder that the file should be locked before editing begins.
> [2] http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn.advanced.locking.html#svn.advanced.locking.lock-communication:
> If that property is attached to a file (regardless of its value, which is irrelevant), Subversion will try to use filesystem-level permissions to make the file read-only—unless, of course, the user has explicitly locked the file.
>
> It would save us a lot of explanations to our users if the readonly (grey) icon overlay is displayed again regardless the value of svn:needs-lock.

Created issue #440 for this:
http://code.google.com/p/tortoisesvn/issues/detail?id=440

Stefan

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