On 21.07.2017 11:00, Paul Hammant wrote: > > > What is the story? How is this going to help Subversion users? > > The idea sounds interesting. However, I'm not sure how it will help > the users. I don't mind whether I have Read Only or Read / Write > access to an FTP resource or another kind of remote data. I just know > whether I have access to the resource or not. IMO, this is a > communication problem and it's not what SVN has to solve. > > > It will help the owners of subversion repos preventing files from > being overwritten that they do not want to be overwritten. e.g. > Company's Word template (.DOT files).
Use the svn:needs-lock property. > It will help subversion end-users not upset the owners of repositories > by changing files (and committing them back) that there are not > supposed to. Use access control. -- Brane
