Re: How are (atomic) commits implemented?

KRONSTORFER Horst wrote:
> 'auto-merge' would also include that the changes made by the 1st commit are
> merged 'on the fly' into the local copy of the one who did the later commit?
>
> did you mean 'auto-merge' fail for *conflicting* changes to the same file.

If commit B changes a same file as commit A (anywhere in the same file,
not only the same lines), then the commit fails because they both
changed the same file. Committer B must then do an update to get the
changes committed by A, then try the commit again.

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Sly
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Received on Wed Jul 20 03:49:06 2005