On 15.01.2014 18:39, Ben Reser wrote: > On 1/13/14, 7:02 PM, Kyle Sluder wrote: >> I understand that implementing this would require all commits to search >> for lock properties on every ancestor of every changed file or >> directory. It essentially amounts to an extension of inheritable >> properties to the RA layer. Which would be pretty neat, IMO. :) > Well not really. Locks aren't a property so none of the inheritable > properties > work helps here. Inheritable properties also already have RA support (which > is > a big reason to prefer a 1.8 server to be used with a 1.8 client since the RA > support is much more efficient than walking the tree). > > DAV already has support for recursive locks (including locks) on directories. > So we'd shouldn't need any new protocol changes for DAV. Presumably we can > come up with something efficient for svnserve. > >> Shall I file a feature request? > Surprised we don't already have a feature request for directory locks already. > So please do so. > > Understand that filing an issue doesn't mean it's going to be immediately > worked on.
There's probably a good reason why we didn't implement directory locks when the locking feature was developed. In any case it's not a trivial feature. -- Brane -- Branko Čibej | Director of Subversion WANdisco // Non-Stop Data e. br...@wandisco.com
