2008/8/25 Ganesha Bhaskara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I store my data files on an subversion repository on Amazon S3 using > jungledisk. > Concurrent writes are detected by subversion program in addition to > versioning > all my changes. Locking by openoffice.org itself is not critical for me.
I agree that users who have implemented their own SVN repos do not need their software to lock files that may be written by multiple users, in the case that SVN can merge the changes for the specific file format in question. Can SVN merge changes to ODF files? DOC files? Now the question remains: does the typical OOo user implement his own SVN repo? For users who have not implemented their own SVN repos, file locking is critical. Not only in the case of multiple users writing at the same time as the OP mentions, but also in the case of files being moved or deleted while they are opened. I recently was witness to a case of a user cleaning out her /home/user directory. She had files open and was moving them without closing. She would then update something in the file and save it. The changes got written to the old file location, which was a folder that had already been cleared out for deleting. So the changes got deleted together with the expendable folder. At least having the _option_ to lock files is critical for everyday users, who do stupid things like move open files, have more than one person with write access to a file, and do not run their own SVN repos. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת ä-ö-ü-ß-Ä-Ö-Ü
