On Oct 12, 2007, at 01:01, Joshi, Mahesh wrote:
>>> I had installed SVN, created a repository and configure it on my
>>> machine
>>> successfully. Also I configured SVN on my Eclipse3.2 IDE. Now when I
>>> get the code from repository to some client machine.
>>>
>>> My question is that if I commit a file after modification and
>>> again I
>>> try to edit it without checking out it should not allow me. And
>>> once a
>>> user checkout a file other should not edit it like in CVS.
>>>
>>> How this can be achieved??.
>>
>> I think you misunderstand the meaning of "checkout" as it relates to
>> Subversion. With Subversion, all users can edit in their working copy
>> at anytime, and their changes are merged with others' when
>> committing.
>> Your working copy is always writable, unless you have files which
>> have
>> the needs-lock property set on files, which will make them read-only
>> until you've claimed a lock.
>>
>> Have you read the Subversion manual yet? It explains quite well the
>> difference between the copy-modify-merge model (default in
>> Subversion)
>> and the lock-modify-unlock model (which you're apparently expecting).
>> http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.4/svn.basic.vsn-models.html explains
>> that specifically, but reading the whole book is recommended.
>
> When I checkout the code from SVN repository from the server I get all
> the code in writable mode. But using CVS when we get the code, it
> is in
> read-only mode and if one needs to modify the code, CVS does not allow
> it unless the user checkouts the file, whereas in SVN any user can
> modify the code without locking it. So I want to force the user to
> checkout the file(s) before it can be edited by the user.
>
> How this can be achieved in SVN?
Again, please read the book. You'll probably be interested in this
section, but I agree with Andy, reading the whole book will help you
understand Subversion better:
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.4/svn.advanced.locking.html
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Received on Fri Oct 12 09:03:54 2007