On 19.02.2013 11:49, Philip Martin wrote: > Users that mix the command line with GUIs can switch off exclusive > locking. If we switch the default then users that want performance > need to switch on exclusive locking. I don't know which group is > bigger, users who want performance or users who want to mix clients.
I think it's less a question about which group is bigger and more which group is going to chew our heads off if parallel actions on the same working copy suddenly start blocking each other. Consider that TSVN by its own lonesome is already doing this, IIRC, it updates status icons asynchronously? -- Brane -- Branko Čibej Director of Subversion | WANdisco | www.wandisco.com