Re: subversion disadavantages

Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y) wrote:
> 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.
>
>
Ahh. That's when you do 'svnadmin hotcopy' , and back up the hotcopy.

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Received on 2009-05-18 14:42:52 CEST