Re: Binary documentation in SVN?

On Feb 3, 2005, at 1:43 PM, Nick Seigal wrote:
>
> Am I right to think this is not currently a part of Subversion in any
> form?
> Do others agree that this sort of info would be useful? Am I thinking
> of
> using Subversion correctly or is there a paradigm shift I need to make
> that
> makes this a non-issue?

Congrats, you've just re-derived a description of "reserved checkouts",
a.k.a. "locking". It's the big new feature we're working on for svn
1.2. We're about 70% done with it. You can see our design stuff in
svn's /trunk/notes/locking/ dir, and look at the code itself in
/branches/locking/.

If your company depends on serialized access to binary files, then you
should wait for svn 1.2. This feature is being added for exactly the
reasons you state: not every file is mergeable. Such files need to be
changed by only one person at a time.

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Received on Thu Feb 3 22:45:52 2005