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Re: Subversion 101: To lock or not to lock..

From: Duncan Murdoch <murdoch_at_stats.uwo.ca>
Date: 2006-06-08 23:58:20 CEST

On 6/8/2006 5:18 PM, Michael March wrote:
> I am the new guy on a young project.. the project has 10 -> 15 Java
> developers. The app is a JBoss app that implements the JBoss Portal
> (kinda like a Java version of PHPNUKE).
>
> The project is only a few months old and the project is constantly
> changing.. very much in flux.
>
> Here is the problem, I am the SCM on the project and I am telling
> everyone based on my experience no one should be locking of any files
> (text) on check out. Everyone else on the project is insisting that
> some files should be locked on check out.
>
> I showed everyone THE page in the official manual and they don't seem
> to care. I shared my previous expereiences on other projects and that
> didn't move them. Their line is this: In the new way of fast paced
> Java web programming.. you are going to have a ton of conflicts and
> merges all the time and it thus it doesn't lend itself to the
> 'non-locking' way of using Subversion.
>
> Does anyone have any advice for what I should say or how to handle
> this situation?

If conflicts from concurrent edits would be a problem, then conflicts of
the "Arrgh! Joe still has that file locked!" variety will be a problem
when using locking.

Both are reduced by telling people to update and commit frequently.

Duncan Murdoch

>
> Or.. is their anyone out there using a locking model when working on a
> Java web project?
>
> thanks!
>

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