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Asked: 2026-06-07T23:05:48+00:00

Is it okay to work on the files being checked in during svn commit?

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Is it okay to work on the files being checked in during svn commit? Sometimes I have seen “Svn Locked Directories” in the IDE, but not always. As far as I understood, svn creates a copy of the files to be committed and so if I continue working on the files being committed, that wouldn’t be a problem right? Yes, nothing wrong in waiting till the check in is done; just curious to know. 🙂

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  1. Editorial Team

    Just looked to SVN 1.7 code. Before commit is locks wc.db (creates a record in WC_LOCK table). Then is sends deltas between your local files and pristine files (from .svn/pristine, i.e. file contents before change), taking care about keywords- and eols-backtranslation. And after all it unlocks wc.db (I skipped non-interesting parts of the commit process).

    So

    • “Svn Locked Directories” can be explained by WC_LOCK record (your IDE checks it before every write operation on the working copy). And you cannot modify your local files.
    • You can’t modify files while committing because SVN uses them to create commit instead of saving somewhere.
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