Re: svn commit: r21745 - branches/fs-atomic-renames/notes

On 10/3/06, Karl Fogel <kfogel@google.com> wrote:
> "Garrett Rooney" <rooneg@electricjellyfish.net> writes:
> > That's assuming that those are intended to be sequential, I was
> > assuming that they were intended to be simultaneous (i.e. swap the
> > locations of A/B and X/Y), which we can't actually do at this point.
>
> Oh! Good point. Although if you put the classic tmp var in the
> middle, would it work?
>
> mv A/B TMP
> mv X/Y A/B
> mv TMP X/Y
>
> If that all happens in one txn, would there be any record of TMP ever
> existing? Would X/Y's history simply say it came from "A/B"@PREV_REV ?

I don't think you can rename something that's already been renamed, at
least not in the current implementation.

-garrett

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