Viewing the woking copy of a lock

[Anton Shepelev <an...@gmail.com>]

Hello, all

How  can  I  view the working-copy path with which a
lock is associated, given the information about  the
lock from `svnadmin lslocks'?

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Re: Viewing the woking copy of a lock

[Anton Shepelev <an...@gmail.com>]

Lorenz to Anton Shepelev:

>>How  can I view the working-copy path with which a
>>lock is associated, given  the  information  about
>>the lock from `svnadmin lslocks'?
>
>you  can't.   The  server  knows  nothing about the
>working copy and its location, only about the user.
>
>If you know the working copy, you  could  run  "svn
>info"  on  all  occurences of the file, to identify
>the working copy.

I think it one of  the  rare  cases  when  dear  old
SourceSafe was better, but of course we should reor-
gaise our process  to  avoid  situations  when  this
functinality is desired.

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Re: Viewing the woking copy of a lock

[Anton Shepelev <an...@gmail.com>]

Daniel Shahaf:

> And for future reference, you can have your users lock
> files using something along the lines of `svn lock -m
> "$(hostname):$(pwd)' to be able to answer your question.
> You could even enforce this with a pre-lock hook.

Thank you, Daniel.  Since the pre-lock hook does not receive
the actual working directory I can only theck the syntax of
such a comment, but I will bear the option in mind.

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Re: Viewing the woking copy of a lock

[Daniel Shahaf <d....@daniel.shahaf.name>]

Lorenz wrote on Tue, 20 Aug 2019 09:20 +00:00:
> Anton Shepelev wrote:
> >How  can  I  view the working-copy path with which a
> >lock is associated, given the information about  the
> >lock from `svnadmin lslocks'?
> 
> you can't.
>  The server knows nothing about the working copy and its location,
> only about the user.
> 
> If you know the working copy, you could run "svn info" on all
> occurences of the file, to identify the working copy.

And for future reference, you can have your users lock files using
something along the lines of «svn lock -m "$(hostname):$(pwd)"» to be
able to answer your question.  You could even enforce this with a pre-lock
hook.

Re: Viewing the woking copy of a lock

[Lorenz <lo...@yahoo.com>]

Anton Shepelev wrote:
>How  can  I  view the working-copy path with which a
>lock is associated, given the information about  the
>lock from `svnadmin lslocks'?

you can't.
 The server knows nothing about the working copy and its location,
only about the user.

If you know the working copy, you could run "svn info" on all
occurences of the file, to identify the working copy.
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