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Re: Question about long commits

From: Ryan Schmidt <subversion-2009b_at_ryandesign.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:15:57 -0500

On Jul 22, 2009, at 15:10, Robert Dailey wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Erik Huelsmann wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 9:18 PM, Robert Dailey wrote:
>> > What limitations are placed on the repository while the commit
>> is in
>> > progress?
>>
>> None. There is a limitation placed on the commit though: if any item
>> the commit changes is also changed in the mean time, the commit
>> may be
>> rejected with an "out-of-date" error.
>
>
> If this is true, this seems problematic. What if the team is making
> a commit every 5 minutes? Assuming each commit the team makes
> touches at least one of the files you are committing, then you will
> never be able to successfully commit your changes. Ever.

It sounded like a pretty hypothetical problem to me. What kind of
commit would ever take 24 hours, or even 1 hour? Unless you're
committing large binary files over a slow network, but binaries
aren't mergeable so people shouldn't be simultaneously modifying
those anyway.

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