September 2008
Intermediate to advanced
432 pages
13h 57m
English
svn lock — Lock working copy paths or URLs in the repository so that no other user can commit changes to them.
svn lock TARGET...Lock each TARGET. If any
TARGET is already locked by another user,
print a warning and continue locking the rest of the
TARGETs. Use --force to
steal a lock from another user or working copy.
None.
Working copy, repository.
Yes.
--encodingENC--file (-F)FILE--force --force-log --message (-m)TEXT--targetsFILENAME
Lock two files in your working copy:
$ svn lock tree.jpg house.jpg 'tree.jpg' locked by user 'harry'. 'house.jpg' locked by user 'harry'.
Lock a file in your working copy that is currently locked by another user:
$ svn lock tree.jpg
svn: warning: Path '/tree.jpg is already locked by user 'sally in \
filesystem '/var/svn/repos/db'
$ svn lock --force tree.jpg
'tree.jpg' locked by user 'harry'.
Lock a file without a working copy:
$ svn lock http://svn.red-bean.com/repos/test/tree.jpg 'tree.jpg' locked by user 'harry'.
For further details, see Locking.