On Tue, 06 Feb 2007, Malcolm Rowe wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 03:50:17PM +0100, Henner Zeller wrote:
> > >I'm not that familiar with the code myself, but I'm surprised that we
> > >unconditionally remove the contents without checking them first
> >
> > Well its good to do so because the tmp/ area might have some old files
> > being lying around that we don't want to keep (hence the name tmp/).
> > Instead of looking for these files, the whole tmp/ is just removed
> > completely and rebuild.
> >
>
> Okay, that does make sense. I see that we only recreate the tmp/ area
> after we run the log for the wc, which will presumably fail if there are
> files referenced in the log that don't exist in tmp/ (because tmp/
> itself doesn't exist).
I'm in favor of this patch. It passes the test suite; I'll be
committing it later today unless any other issues with it are raised.
- dan
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