Arjen Wisse wrote on Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 09:51:43 +0200: > Hi Daniel, > > Thanks for responding to this issue. > > In fact what I was expecting is that when locking the file before > move, the lock being moved to the new location in the working copy as > well. However, that does not happen either (see defect > http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3525). > > You suggested "lock the moved-from path", but how do I achieve that? > Does it mean that I require to lock it in the repository only? > Wouldn't that give a 'orphan' lock (I mean a lock only existing in the > repository, not in any working copy)? >
Yes, it might result in the lock being orphan or being present in a different working copy. But I assumed your question was how to work around 'svn mv foo bar; svn lock bar' erroring out --- and I assumed the primary problem was to communicate the lock to others. Remember that you can always jump in and help us fix the issues... > Thanks & Regards, > > Arjen Wisse > > > On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 3:15 AM, Daniel Shahaf <d...@daniel.shahaf.name> > wrote: > > > > But then once you commit --keep-locks the rename, you'll have to also > > move the lock from /f1/foo to /f2/foo, right? > > > > For that matter: > > > > % svn add iota > > % svn ci -mm iota > > % svn mv iota kappa > > % svn lock kappa > > % svn ci --keep-locks -m rename ./ > > > > should also move the lock from iota to kappa. (currently it doesn't) > > > > > > This seems reasonable to me. (so, +1 to filing a feature request bug) > > > > > > And to answer your question: for now, lock the moved-from path. > > > > > > Arjen Wisse wrote on Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 17:27:06 +0100: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Let's have the following folder/file structure: > > > * f1 > > > ** test.txt > > > > > > (so the file 'test.txt' is part of folder 'f1'). > > > > > > After renaming 'f1' to 'f2' (using svn rename) I get the following > > > error when executing: > > > > > > >svn lock f2/test.txt > > > svn: Path '/f2/test.txt' doesn't exist in HEAD revision > > > > > > Of course, it does not exist in the HEAD revision at that location, > > > because the folder is renamed. So, IMO it should lock the file > > > 'test.txt' in path '/f1/test.txt' in the repository as I did not > > > commit my rename yet. How can I ensure locking in this case? > > > > > > Regards, > > > Arjen Wisse
