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Re: Roadmap for 1.1 (locking)

From: C.A.T.Magic <c.a.t.magic_at_gmx.at>
Date: 2004-04-02 18:14:12 CEST

Jay Glanville wrote:

>>Simon Raess wrote:
>>
>> >> 1. Locking
>> >> Well, you're dealing with that. Note that the
>>lockingplan.txt when I
>> >> read seemed to focus on Exclusive locks only - we need
>>shared/advisory
>> >> locks as well (and locks must have the user recorded
>>against them or the
>> >> advice is not so useful)
>>
>>I have a question on locking and svn in general:
>>when locking a single file, you would only lock
>>
>>for example
>>
>> /trunk/foo.txt
>>
>>but all other branches that contain this file
>>
>> /bar/Branch01/foo.txt
>> /bar/Branch02/foo.txt
>>
>>would remain unlocked, since svn is unable
>>to detect that these are branches and are related.
>>
>>Or do I misunderstand that?
>
>
> Correct. That is my common usage of locking in other SCM systems. The
> primary purpose of locking is to prevent collisions. Editing the same
> file in two different branches doesn't cause a collision.

but how will this work if the locking is intended to prevent collisions
between unmergable binary files?

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c.a.t.

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