On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 3:30 PM, Ahmed, Omair (GE Oil & Gas) < omair.ah...@ge.com> wrote:
> Hello, > > Is "Needs-Lock" the correct (or expected) mechanism by which to make a > release tag immutable? Basically, I am looking for a way to "lock" a tag to > prevent accidental updates. > > No. svn:needs-lock is an indicator for the SVN client that a file should be marked as read-only until the user creates a lock in the repository. See http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn.advanced.locking.html To make a tag immutable, you need to restrict access in the repository itself. This is typically done via path-based authorization (deny write access to the tag's path), or a pre-commit hook script (such as svnperms.py) which rejects a commit which writes to that path.
