On 22-Nov-05, at 12:15 PM, Erik Huelsmann wrote:
> On 11/22/05, Thompson, Graeme (AELE)
> <Graeme.Thompson@smiths-aerospace.com> wrote:
>>
>> You could easily write a script to give you atomic updates:
>>
>> Copy your current working directory.
>> Run svn update on your working directory
>> If (successful)
>> {
>> delete your copy
>> }
>> Else
>> {
>> delete your working directory
>> move the copy back to your working directory
>> }
>>
>> This could easily be done on any of the operating systems that svn
>> supports
>>
>> Just run this script to update you working directory and you will
>> have what you want.
>
> But it's not atomical: it's not a fail or succeed operation: 'delete
> your working directory' can fail half way, so that it's impossible to
> copy over the copy-working-dir.
So change that to read "rename your working directory" instead of
delete. It would require a bit of messing around for sure, but I
don't think it is impossible.. perhaps impractical.
Scott
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Received on Tue Nov 22 18:27:35 2005