lock-breaking ui

[John A Meinel]

Robey Pointer wrote:
> 
> On 26 Feb 2006, at 12:30, James Blackwell wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 10:59:38PM -0800, Robey Pointer wrote:
>>> Breaking locks should be very rare, and have some warnings associated
>>> with it.  It comes with the explicit risk of branch corruption.  (The
>>> only time I ever had to break arch's locks were due to bugs in arch's
>>> interaction with gpg.  Aside from that, I probably would've never had
>>> the need to break locks.)
>>
>> Definitely not rare. I get one or two requests a month for how to break
>> locks. I had one yesterday, in fact.
> 
> This sounds like a bug in bzr, then. :(  Bug reports of "this is what I
> did to get a dangling lock left behind" would probably be useful.
> 
> IMHO, there's no reason we can't make lock-breaking be a rare operation.
> 
> robey
> 
> 
> 

(That would be a bug in Arch/Baz, not bzr. The requests aren't for bzr)

John
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