Re: Locking in Subversion

On 9 March 2010 16:20, <Sanjay_Patil_at_johnlewis.co.uk> wrote:

>
> Hi Guys,
>
> Please can you advise me on below.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
>
Put a pre-commit hook that checks for any attempts to commit a .doc file to
the repo where that .doc file does not have the svn:needs-lock property set
and bombs out the commit with an error stating that the property needs to be
set for .doc files and pointing people to a how-to doc explaining how to
setup their autoprops config to do this for them

-Stephen

> Please let me know if you need any more information on this.
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