Branko Čibej <brane <at> wandisco.com> writes: > > Maybe this behavior can be made optional, enabled via the > configuration file? > > Changing client behaviour via config file options is almost always a > bad idea ... every such option makes testing more complex and bug > triage more time consuming. > I'm not saying that there's no chance we'd ever change the way 'svn > delete' behaves; I only stated some of the arguments against that, > and there can certainly be other opinions. But we'd have to see some > indication that the case you describe is actually moderately common. > Frankly, I doubt it is; because mandatory locking isn't, in my > experience, a very common workflow with Subversion.
I'm finding myself in agreement that such customizations are generally not a good idea. I would be interested to hear if others using a mandatory lock workflow have felt this svn delete behavior is an issue. Best regards, Rick
