Re: subversion disadavantages

On 05/18/2009 11:41 AM, B. Smith-Mannschott wrote:
>> 2: locking mechnaism is only available on file level and not on dir. level .
>> if i have thousand files and need lick all the files then i need lock file
>> one by one??. it's realy painful
>
> True. Though, I'd be *very* interested to know why you feel the need
> to lock so many files at once. What is it that you are trying to
> achieve?

Dont you remember? the backup story :-).
Locking out the users during backup, the way it's done with
broken-by-design tools.

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