Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 13:47, Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote:
>
>>. Why does it
>>need to parse the "entries" file just to lock the directory?.
>
>
> You've got it backwards. The *main* activity is reading entries files,
> not locking directories.
>
> When you 'svn up', the client needs to report the local revision of
> *every* directory and file in your working copy to the server, just like
> CVS does. This means reading every single entries file in your tree.
> The locking stuff is just some extra protection, to make sure no other
> svn client changes the entries file on disk while the 'svn up' process
> is reading it.
Yeah, but he says he's doing an 'svn up Makefile', so why is it
recursing down the tree to read all the rest of the entry files?
Shouldn't it just read the top level one?
-garrett
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Received on Fri Mar 26 20:58:04 2004