On Thu, Feb 24, 2022 at 10:51 AM Lorenz <loren...@yahoo.com> wrote: > just discovered, that merging into a RO file succeeds. > I my case the file is RO because of a needs-lock property. > So when I try to commit I can't. > > This effect ist at least annoying. > There is a reason why the file is read only.
It is interesting both that it was able to do this and also that this has never come up before. I am not sure I can wrap my head around what I think should even happen here. There is no way you could be expected to obtain locks on these files before merging. I guess ideally merge would obtain locks but I just do not know what merge should do if it cannot obtain the lock. I guess it should behave the same way it would if the file was not present due to it being a sparse working copy. Maybe merge should just refuse to run at all if it detects any svn:needs-lock properties in the WC? It is a hard problem to solve. Mark
