lock-breaking ui

[James Blackwell]

On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 04:31:10PM +1100, Martin Pool wrote:
> This is just one case of bad things that can happen if you remove a
> supposedly stale lock while a client still thinks it has it.  Even aside
> from the problem of that client removing someone else's lock, it can
> still keep on modifying files while someone else is also doing so,
> causing havoc.
> 
> Therefore perhaps we do just have to assume that you only break a lock
> if you really are sure no one else holds it.  This is not perfect, but
> only the same requirement as cvs and svn (and arch?)

Is reasonably possible to check from time to time to see if our lock is
still there?  For the least, is it possible to check the lock still exists
during wrapup, to tell the user that he (or someone else at work) may have
destroyed the branch?

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