On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 6:20 AM, Justin Case <send_lotsa_spam_here_at_yahoo.com
> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> > From: Ulrich Eckhardt <ulrich.eckhardt_at_dominolaser.com>
> >
> > Sorry, but I'm afraid I didn't get across what I wanted to say.
>
> Correct. Let me simplify again my test case:
> 1. I run svn update
> 2. svn update finds a file in use, aborts
> 3. I free the file, oops it seems I have to cleanup
>
> Why should I have to cleanup???
> svn update (see point 2) KNEW the file is in use, so instead of leaving
> locks around it could just have skipped that file and print a message that
> not everything have been updated.
> JC
>
To detect a "locked file" as a safe change to reject and fail on, wouldn't
Subversion have to know quite a bit about the underlying filesystem? This
can be surprisiingly difficult, and is partly why lock files exist, to
abstract that subtle knowledge into a more tangible "no, we're not kidding,
leave this alone while we're doing atomic operations" stage. I'm not saying
it's infeasible, just potentially more comlicated than you may realize.
Received on 2012-06-13 13:32:33 CEST