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Re: Cross-branch locking

From: Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman_at_collab.net>
Date: 2005-09-15 05:09:19 CEST

On Sep 14, 2005, at 6:55 PM, James McNeill wrote:

> Locking a file only locks it in one place in the repository. If
> you have a
> trunk and a branch version of a non-mergeable (binary, usually)
> file, it is
> still possible for people to make changes to both copies
> simultaneously and
> end up with non-mergeable changes.
>
> Has anyone thought about ways to prevent this from happening?

Why not lock both locations? You can run 'svn lock' on URLs if you
wish.

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