Locking to prevent changes to a branch?

["O'Hearn, Mike" <Mi...@jenzabar.net>]

I want to prevent from accidental changes to an old branch. We are new to
subversion and I find that a lot of people accidentally work in the wrong
working copy.

 

Is locking the entire branch a good solution? Any downsides to this? Any
other suggestions?

 

Re: Locking to prevent changes to a branch?

[kf...@collab.net]

"O'Hearn, Mike" <Mi...@jenzabar.net> writes:
> I want to prevent from accidental changes to an old branch. We are new to
> subversion and I find that a lot of people accidentally work in the wrong
> working copy.
> 
> Is locking the entire branch a good solution? Any downsides to this? Any
> other suggestions?

It's a good solution, but consider moving that branch to the 'tags/'
directory and locking it down there.  I believe svnbook.red-bean.com
goes into detail on this.

-Karl


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Re: Locking to prevent changes to a branch?

[David Weintraub <qa...@gmail.com>]

There is a script that comes with the Subversion source called
commit-access-control.pl that will do exacly what you want. Simply
setup your pre-commit hook to run this script, and setup a control
file that will prevent people from committing changes in that
directory.

It's fairly easy to setup and use.

--
David Weintraub
qazwart@gmail.com

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