On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 11:19:45AM -0400, Bicking, David (HHoldings, IT) wrote:
> Interesting. What happens when a person gets a lock on a file while
> another person begins working on his own local copy? Am I correct in
> believing that the user who doesn't have the lock will do his work
> oblivious to the new lock until he attempts to commit? What happens if
> the person who has the lock made changes that make the second person's
> work totally useless?
If the file has the property svn:needs-lock, the file is r/o in the wc's
filesystem. That means, without having a lock, it is (not so easy) to
edit the file.
> It seems to me that it would be useful to know this with a quick
> "update" operation. Keep in mind that I'm looking at this through the
> eyes of joe (microsoft) developer who is using an IDE integration. Many
> of them are a bit more "lazy" when it comes to SCM. They don't want to
> execute a "list all changes on the server" operation. They want to see
> a visual notification that something interesting changed ("oh, gee, with
> this update, the file I'm editing suddenly has a padlock on it! I
> wonder who did that?").
TSVN has its own overlay icons, it is easy to see which files are r/o
and for wich files the user has a lock.
The same for Subclipse, others I do not know.
Rainer
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Received on Mon Sep 17 17:28:51 2007