lock-breaking ui

[Robey Pointer]

On 27 Feb 2006, at 20:13, John A Meinel wrote:

> 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)

Sorry, I should've mentioned: I asked jblack for clarification on IRC  
before replying, and he said they were indeed for bzr.

robey