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Pragmatic Guide to Subversion
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Pragmatic Guide to Subversion

by Mike Mason
November 2010
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
150 pages
2h 55m
English
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30Obtaining a Lock

Files that are tagged with the special svn:needs-lock property are read-only in your working copy. How “read-only” is implemented depends on your operating system. On Windows, a file has a read-only attribute that you can see by right-clicking and choosing Properties. On a Unix system the file’s write flag is disabled, and on a Mac the file will be set to read-only if you look in Finder’s Sharing and Permissions section.

The Subversion client marks files read-only to give you a reminder that you should lock them before making changes. Depending on what software you use to edit the files, you may or may not get some kind of a prompt or warning indicating that the files are read-only. For example, using Paint on Windows to ...

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