Re: Locking in Subversion

On Tuesday 09 March 2010, Sanjay_Patil_at_johnlewis.co.uk wrote:
> I have been asked to configure Subv in a way that all word docs/newly
> added docs are configured for needs-lock in a particular projecy (say
> Project A) under a repository.
>
> Initially I tried to implement this by adding below property to my Subv
> config file
>
> *.doc = svn:needs-lock
>
> But this affects other projects under different repo as the settings is
> machine specific.

You'll also have to activate auto props in general, the above alone doesn't do
anything. Further, it only affects newly added files. Concerning the problem
that it also affects different repositories, I'm not sure there is anything
you can do. IMHO that setting makes sense regardless of the repository.

> Is there a way, I can add a property to apply needs-lock to files under a
> specific project in a repo. As there are 100 of such word docs, I wanted
> to avoid setting it at each file level.

Assume you're using TortoiseSVN (other clients might provide different ways to
set properties recursively), go to the properties of the parent directory.
There, add the needs-lock property and apply it recursively. Then, in the
commit dialog, just sort the files by their type and revert the change on all
non-doc files.

On a Unix shell, you could do something like

  find -name \*\.doc -exec ...

In any case, you could install a server-side hook script that makes sure the
property is present on all *.doc files.

Uli

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