Re: Implementing the Lock->Edit->Unlock cycle

2016-09-29 Thread Andreas Krey
On Thu, 29 Sep 2016 14:58:44 +, Anton Shepelev wrote: ... > Is there no protection against an oblivious users's > losing a day's work merely because he forgot to up- > date his working copy, which was obsolete beyond > merging? He will learn it, lucky eddie style. If you plan doing mass

Re: Implementing the Lock->Edit->Unlock cycle

2016-09-29 Thread Eric Johnson
On 9/29/16 4:58 AM, Anton Shepelev wrote: Thanks to everybody for their replies. Eric Johnson to Anton Shepelev: "svn update" is your friend. Just encourage users to do updates before they start editing. Is there no protection against an oblivious users's losing a day's work merely becau

Re: Implementing the Lock->Edit->Unlock cycle

2016-09-29 Thread Anton Shepelev
Lorenz to Anton Shepelev: >>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, >>

svn not using gpg-agent

2016-09-29 Thread Michael Thayer
(Not subscribed, please CC me on answers. Thanks!) Hello, I suspect this is a user problem somewhere, but since I upgraded to Ubuntu 16.10 (Subversion 1.9.4 versus 1.9.3 in 16.04) svn has stopped using GPG-Agent and started using GNOME Keyring to store my password. As a test, I deleted all G

Re: svn switch, touches files with svn:keywords

2016-09-29 Thread Lorenz
Daniel Shahaf wrote: >Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote on Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 19:44:07 -0400: >> If you switch the upstream repo for a software source repo, recompile. >> It's the best way to make sure you've not left some datestamped file >> inconsistencies that could mess with the system. > >Subversion s

Re: Implementing the Lock->Edit->Unlock cycle

2016-09-29 Thread Lorenz
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 o

Re: Implementing the Lock->Edit->Unlock cycle

2016-09-29 Thread Anton Shepelev
Thanks to everybody for their replies. Eric Johnson to Anton Shepelev: >>> 1. lock and update, >>> lest one might accidentally start editing an >>> old version of some file. > >Subversion supports locks. However, it sounds like >they do not work the way you want them to. > >Subvers