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I'm looking for a way to make an exclusive checkout from SVN.
Is there a way to automatically lock a file when it's being checked out ?
If one user makes an exclusive checkout, and then another user makes a checkout to the same file, how do I generate some sort of notification or an instant message to the 2nd user that the file is locked?
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Open the SVN server, right-click on the repository and select the copy URL to clipboard (for the VIsualSVN server) and paste it on the command line. User credentials will be the same as what we set at the time of user creation. After every successful checkout operation, the output will print a revision number.
How Locking Works in Subversion. By default, nothing is locked and anyone who has commit access can commit changes to any file at any time. Others will update their working copies periodically and changes in the repository will be merged with local changes.
svn lock — Lock working copy paths or URLs in the repository so that no other user can commit changes to them.
Subversion 1.5 introduces the idea of "depth" (controlled via the '--depth' and '--set-depth' options) as a replacement for mere non-recursiveness (formerly controlled via the '-N' option). Depth allows working copies to have exactly the contents the user wants, leaving out everything else.
You can add the property or auto-prop svn:needs-lock which makes the file read-only and requires you to place a lock on the file to edit it.
If you are using TortoiseSVN you will see a different icon for locked files, this should be easy for a second user to see and know not to edit the file.
Referenced in TortoiseSVN documentation
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