On Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 10:09:06AM +0200, Markus Schaber wrote: > > <Bert> stsp: (re: users@) read only operations on a fsfs repository > don't > > obtain a lock (and don't need write access). Only commit and revprop > > changes should need write access. (I don't know what is required for > bdb). > > We don't use read locks, except for the sqlite (and maybe bdb) builtin > > ones. > > <danielsh> stsp: and packing > > But AFAIR, V1.7 uses sqlite in the repository. Does that change > anything?
The sqlite db is used for the revprop packing feature. This feature is only used at commit time. You cannot commit to a read-only repository anyway :) Subversion 1.6 uses sqlite for this, too, not just 1.7.
