Re: Documentation about the 'Lock' feature

You sure you want to disable all concurrency? I wouldn't do that
unless there's a requirement at your company that requires file
locking. Locking gives you a false sense of security in concurrency
and is a big administrative headache. (See
<http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/ch02s02.html#svn-ch-2-sect-2.2>).
Almost all modern version control systems now eliminate the need for
file locking.

I have a pre-commit Perl script that will verify that properties are
correctly set (as well as a few other rather useful things). You can
easily set the hook to make sure that the svn:needs-lock property is
set on all files, but not on directories. If you're interested, send
me an email, and I'll send you the script.

On 7/20/05, Phil <plabonte@gmail.com> wrote:
> yes I want to disable all concurrency...
>
> And on that note, how can I disable users from changing file
> properties in subversion... I mean if I give a user write access can
> they change the files properties?
>
>
>
>
> On 7/20/05, Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman@collab.net> wrote:
> >
> > On Jul 20, 2005, at 1:29 PM, Phil wrote:
> >
> > > I did and this is what I am try to issue:
> > >
> > > svn propset svn:needs-lock * reponame
> > >
> > > does nto work...?
> > >
> > > I need specific help... what specifically do I need to issue as a
> > > command to set the property to all the subdirectories below my
> > > repository that I have called 'reponame'?
> > >
> > > everything I tried gives me the error:
> > > '.' is not a working copy
> > >
> >
> > You can only lock files, not directories. Therefore, it only makes
> > sense to set 'svn:lock' property on files.
> >
> > It sounds, then, like you want to run 'svn propset' on every file in
> > your working copy. To do this, use your shell, or write a simple
> > script of some sort.
> >
> > (Are you really certain that you want to completely disable
> > concurrency on the whole project? You want to force people to lock
> > *every* file before they begin editing?)
> >
> >
>

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