Re: CVS update: subversion STACK

sussman@tigris.org wrote:

> + - ? should the update interface also have the same API as above?
> + It's not not necessary, since updates aren't atomic like commits.
> + But it might be nice for consistency...

An update of a single file (patch, merge, prop changes, metedata
changes) *must* be atomic, or a flaky network connection will regularly
corrupt the working copy. But that's all, I guess; apart from that, an
update can be restarted.

Note: multiple adds/deletes in a directory must be applied atomically,
too, by the same reasoning.

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