Re: Issue #4162: make svn status fix timestamp mismatches in meta-data

Branko Čibej wrote:
> Bert Huijben wrote:

>> Changing the recorded timestamps would require obtaining a write lock while
>> performing a status walk... which is a breaking change for any client that
>> wants to do things concurrently. -1 on 'just doing it' There is a good reason
>> the current code only updates timestamps when it has a write lock. Otherwise
>> it would break concurrent operations.
>

> I absolutely agree. 'svn status' has never write-locked the working
> copy. There are clients out there that rely on this documented fact.
> One of them is TortoiseSVN.

I don't dispute that, but there seems to be an assumption there that if it takes out a lock on this metadata then that lock will necessarily have to be "the [present] WC write lock" which will therefore block operations such as 'update'. Is it inconceivable that some different level, granularity or kind of locking strategy could be used?

- Julian
Received on 2014-06-23 11:43:59 CEST