Re: [Serna] File locking/versioning with Serna -- what are others using?

Hi P

Thanks very much for your detailed response on Subversion.  
You're not the first who has been very much in favour of 
this option so that's more encouragement to give it a proper 
test.

Your setup seems similar to ours (Apache from a Windows server) 
which also bodes well.  And the integration with Windows 
authentication would be a bonus.  I'm very keen to be rid 
of file locks if there is a better way.

I have started on the Subversion book and will continue 
to make my way through it.

Two questions which I might not get from there: 
firstly, how often do you run into conflicts (which 
I understand is when two users modify the same 
portion of the file)?  This seems rare, and obviously 
that will depend on how on'es data is structured 
but I'd like to have an idea of others' feelings on this.  

Secondly, can Subversion handle different kinds of 
access to files, say from a web browser with 
filesystem links?  For example, because only staff in 
our corridor can access our web pages, currently 
I serve HTML pages which have links to files in 
WebDAV folders.  There are a few reasons for that, one 
of them searching (one repository is compiled into a 
read-only xml database periodically).  I use a Firefox 
program launcher plugin to "associate" those links 
with Serna.  Do you think I could have a similar 
arrangment if using Subversion?  That is, could I get 
Subversion to notice when a repository file is 
being opened and by whom?  I don't mind if this involves
a bit of server-side code or javascript so long as it's
doable.

Tim