Anton Shepelev wrote: >We are migrating to SVN from the dreaded SourceSafe >and should like to retain, if only at the start, the >exclusive check-out process, with the following >*atomic* operations which should be performed as >easily as possible: > > 1. lock and update, > lest one might accidentally start editing an > old version of some file. >[...]
"svn lock" will fail if your working copy is not up to date. So using svn:needs-lock and an editor that prevents you from modifying read-only files should do the job. -- Lorenz