Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
> Julian Foad <julianfoad@btopenworld.com> writes:
>
>>Can someone reassure me that the operation will be atomic: that the
>>server will determine the particular revision that is HEAD when it
>>gets the request, and will send the whole of the response against
>>that particular revision even if HEAD is changing because commits
>>are happening in parallel?
>
> Yes, this is exactly how it works. There's no such thing as a "moving
> HEAD". The client says, 'what is HEAD'? The server responds, "it is
> 7111". The client then requests an update to exactly r7111. Of
> course, by that time, 7112 might exist, but that's just too bad.
Excellent. Thanks. That's what I wanted to hear.
- Julian
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Received on Mon Sep 22 16:29:13 2003