RE: Re: How to avoid stealing a lock

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ulrich Eckhardt [mailto:eckhardt_at_satorlaser.com]
> Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 6:04 AM
> To: users_at_subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: Re: How to avoid stealing a lock
>
> On Friday 01 February 2008, Kota, Sreenivasa ShravanaKumar wrote:
> > How to avoid stealing a lock in SVN ? Is it possible ? If so, How ?
> >
> > I appreciate your help
>
> Well, you can avoid stealing a lock by simply making the person that
> owns the lock release it voluntarily.

Which only works if you're aware of the lock. Ex:
        Monday: I check out foo.java.
        Tuesday: You lock foo.java.
        Wednesday: I try to checkin foo.java...

There was a whole long discussion about this problem a few months ago,
complete with hurt feelings. =)

The only 'guaranteed' way to avoid working on a locked file is for the
file to have 'svn:needs-lock' on it before anyone pulls it into their
workspace.

Even with svn:needs-lock, you can still work on it accidentally if your
editor doesn't respect the 'read only' flag on the "locked" file.

The only way to really guarantee that read-only files stay read-only, is
for the subversion client to act as its own filesystem and intercept
system calls to modify the file. Which isn't going to happen.
(ClearCase dynamic views are the only workspaces I know of that can
protect read-only/locked files.)

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