RE: Source Control for DB objects

>> with subversion you
>> don't take any kind of lock when you checkout.
This is indeed the case. One of the tenets of Subversion is to completely avoid locking files.

>> My understanding of it is that a checkout is really just a
>> download of a given version of the files to your machine.
Yes. When you checkout a file/folder/tree/project, you are downloading a copy of everything that you requested as of a particular point in time - that point being the most recent commit (to that project).

>> There is a separate operation to take a lock on file(s), but
>> this is explicit.

It is explicit and I've never had to use it.

One other thing I really should mention, NEVER EVER rm a file or folder under version control. Use the Subversion tools to do so. Ditto for renaming a file.

You can get your working folder into all sorts of trouble if you do so plus, a commit or update may break.

I've had to sort out a couple that other people did when they removed a folder then recreated it with the same name. It is not the same *object* as the one in the repository. Grief all round!

Cheers,
Norm.

Norman Dunbar
Contract Senior Oracle DBA
Capgemini Database Team (EA)
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