lock-breaking ui

[Jan Hudec]

On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 18:54:09 -0800, 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.

Some things that leave stale lock behind are not bzr's fault. Most common is
of course a network connection failing.

-- 
						 Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb at ucw.cz>
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