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repository, so that no other user can commit changes to
them.</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="id418066"></a><h2>Synopsis</h2><pre class="programlisting">svn lock TARGET...</pre></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="id418078"></a><h2>Description</h2><p>Lock each <em class="replaceable"><code>TARGET</code></em>. If any
<em class="replaceable"><code>TARGET</code></em> is already locked by
another user, print a warning and continue locking the
rest of the <em class="replaceable"><code>TARGET</code></em>s. Use
<code class="option">--force</code> to steal a lock from another user
or working copy.</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="id418104"></a><h2>Alternate Names</h2><p>None</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="id418114"></a><h2>Changes</h2><p>Working Copy, Repository</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="id418124"></a><h2>Accesses Repository</h2><p>Yes</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="id418134"></a><h2>Options</h2><pre class="screen">
--targets FILENAME
--message (-m) TEXT
--file (-F) FILE
--force-log
--encoding ENC
--username USER
--password PASS
--no-auth-cache
--non-interactive
--config-dir DIR
--changelist ARG
</pre></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="id418148"></a><h2>Examples</h2><p>Lock two files in your working copy:</p><pre class="screen">
$ svn lock tree.jpg house.jpg
'tree.jpg' locked by user 'harry'.
'house.jpg' locked by user 'harry'.
</pre><p>Lock a file in your working copy that is currently
locked by another user:</p><pre class="screen">
$ svn lock tree.jpg
svn: warning: Path '/tree.jpg is already locked by user 'sally in \
filesystem '/var/svn/repos/db'
$ svn lock --force tree.jpg
'tree.jpg' locked by user 'harry'.
</pre><p>Lock a file without a working copy:</p><pre class="screen">
$ svn lock http://svn.red-bean.com/repos/test/tree.jpg
'tree.jpg' locked by user 'harry'.
</pre><p>For further details, see <a class="xref" href="svn.advanced.locking.html" title="Locking">the section called “Locking”</a>.</p></div></div><div class="navfooter"><hr /><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="svn.ref.svn.c.list.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="svn.ref.svn.html#svn.ref.svn.c">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="svn.ref.svn.c.log.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">svn list </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> svn log</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
