Semantics of locking a "revision"

Hello,

if I co a working copy with -rREV with REV older than HEAD, I am able to get a lock on any file. But it seems to me, that the lock is never published to the server as no "svn info URL" shows an existing lock on the file on any working revision, while the lock is existing in my wc (displayed by svn status / info).

So what is the purpose of having an isolated lock in my wc? Did I miss something?

Best regards,
J. Ruhe

p.s. Using svn 1.7.6 (win32 cygwin client), svn 1.7.7 (debian server)
Received on 2012-12-18 18:14:51 CET