| 29 | Enabling File Locking |
Subversion file locking is supported on all files within the repository, so a user can in theory lock a file at any time. When someone else tries to commit a change to the locked file, Subversion will reject the change because the file is locked. This isn’t very useful, though, because someone could have done a bunch of work that they now need to throw away because someone else has locked the file. A much better solution would be to stop a user from editing a file unless they have a lock on it in the first place.
Subversion’s advisory locking is enabled by setting the special svn:needs-lock property on a file. It doesn’t matter what value the property is set to; if the property is present, the file has locking enabled. ...
Get Pragmatic Guide to Subversion now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
