Re: Implementing the Lock->Edit->Unlock cycle

Lorenz to Anton Shepelev:

>>We are migrating to SVN from the dreaded SourceSafe
>>and should like to retain, if only at the start, the
>>exclusive check-out process, with the following
>>*atomic* operations which should be performed as
>>easily as possible:
>>
>> 1. lock and update,
>> lest one might accidentally start editing an
>> old version of some file.
>>[...]
>
>"svn lock" will fail if your working copy is not up
>to date.
>
>So using svn:needs-lock and an editor that prevents
>you from modifying read-only files should do the job.

Thanks.

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