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RE: Subversion release ALL locks after commit. Why?

From: Giulio Troccoli <Giulio.Troccoli_at_uk.linedata.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 14:18:18 +0100

> From: Steven Bakke [mailto:steven.bakke_at_amd.com]
> Sent: 01 July 2008 13:42
>
> On Jul 1, 2008, at 7:53 AM, Giulio Troccoli wrote:
>
> > From the Subversion Book (both for 1.4.4 and 1.5):
> >
> > "[svn-commit] searches the working copy (or list of targets, if you
> > provide such a list) for local modifications and sends all the lock
> > tokens it encounters during this walk to the server as part of the
> > commit transaction. After the commit completes successfully, all of
> > the
> > repository locks that were mentioned are released-even on files that
> > weren't committed. This is meant to discourage users from being
sloppy
> > about locking or from holding locks for too long."
>
> FYI, for this behavior there is either a bug in subversion 1.4.x (and
> presumeably
> 1.5.x) or this documentation is incorrect. I've found that if I try
> to commit
> a file that is locked but without local modifications, it won't unlock
> that file. I
> assume this is because it only auto-unlocks files that are modified.
>

I have just test this and it does what the book said, at least with
1.4.4. If however, I specify a list of files to commit, then the locks
of the other files are preserved.

I attached the script I have been using.
 
 
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