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Re: Consider Lock Required for SVN Move

From: Steve Bakke <steven.bakke_at_amd.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 11:41:40 -0400

I thought that locks were required for deletion of a file and a move
is really a delete+add operation.

This gets much weirder when you are doing a mv on a directory which
has needs-lock items buried within it. Since Subversion only does
locking on individual files rather than directories, it probably
doesn't make sense to require a lock in that case. (though I would
really like the ability to lock a directory rather than just a file.
Somebody requested this long ago via the 'collections' concept)

Bottom line on locking though is that you may find that requiring
strict locking is more of a pain than it is worth unless it is really
required due to unmergeable data.

-steve

On Jun 3, 2009, at 10:17 AM, photoTed wrote:

> We are deploying SVN as a content management replacement for
> Documentum. As
> such it is being used by less tech savy users. We are implementing
> the
> svn:needs-lock property to reduce the possibility of these users
> creating
> conflicts. That is working well.
>
> SVN Move is a chink in that armor. User A moves (happens to be with
> Tortoise, but that is just the client, not the underlying
> architecture) a
> file to a different folder. As it does not have to be locked, if
> the user
> does not check the file in, User B can still open the file from the
> original
> folder without knowledge that user A moved the file. Eventually
> everything
> can be sorted out, but if the SVN Move operation of an object with
> svn:needs-lock property required the lock, the second user would not
> be able
> to obtain his/her lock on that object until the User A committed the
> move
> change.
>
> Architecturally requiring that, seems consistent with the concept of
> a lock.
>
> Thanks for your consideration.
>
> Ted Mead
>
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