transport lock methods

[John A Meinel]

Robert Collins wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 20:29 -0600, John A Meinel wrote:
>> Robert Collins wrote:
>>> I think we should remove the lock methods from transport because having
>>> transport specific locks leads to bugs : we dont have cross-transport
>>> compatibility.
>>>
>>> I think we should do this for 0.8. Thoughts?
>>>
>>> Rob
>>>
>> I think we should move to LockDir for 0.8, which would get rid of
>> transport specific locks. We only had transport specific locks because
>> we *couldn't* have OS locks over sftp.
> 
> Yes, but we need to keep enough machinery around to write to format 6
> branches over sftp unless we want to make 0.8 a watershed upgrade.
> 
>> By the way, have we worked out any of the ui for breaking locks?
> 
> Not yet :).
> 
> Rob
> 

I agree that we don't really want to make 0.8 a watershed. But how would
you recommend doing it properly. If you are planning to stay cooperative
with bzr-0.7, then we need to leave locks the way they are.

John
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