Apply needs lock on folder from repo browser

Stefan Küng

2014-10-17 08:25:30 UTC

Post by Steve Parkinson
Open repo browser. Right click a folder in the file view frame (right
frame). Click properties. New, needs lock. Select locking required, Ok
to dialog. Receive error dialog ‘Cannot set ‘svn:needs-lock’ on a
directory’. Tortoise crashed, dump uploaded and linked below. Following

The reason you get that error when trying to set the needs-lock property
on a folder is that when doing it from a working copy, the property is
set on all files inside that folder recursively instead. When you try to
do it from the repository browser, that's not possible since it would
take way too long to set the property on each file separately - and you
would probably overload the server as well.

Post by Steve Parkinson
the crash I applied the property from the explorer shell dialog to the
same folder. When I attempted to reproduce the problem in creating this
report I could not.
Not sure why I was trying to do it from repo browser anyway, but thought
I would give some additional info on the dump upload.

Thanks. I've received a lot dumps for that crash already, but never with
a description on how or when it happened.
I still can't reproduce it here on my machine, but I'll keep trying. I
hope I can find out the reason for this crash with the info you gave here.

Stefan
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