RFC: dirstate & locks

[John Arbash Meinel]

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Robert Collins wrote:

>>> I think what I proposed has no problems for windows or linux of this
>>> nature, only a 'when do we delete things' problem, and thats solvable
>>> using one of a number of heuristics if the basic thing sounds ok.
>>>
>>> -Rob
>> I would just have "bzr status" take out a real write lock (since that is
>> basically what it is half-doing now) and check that the file isn't
>> modified before it writes its data out.
> 
> I don't like this because it doesn't map well to what users want to do -
> and all commands that need iter_changes to work would have to be
> modified to do this - ls, diff, status are only the obvious ones.
> 
> 
> -Rob

Um... they already do this, well diff and status do. It is part of the
unlock function already, IIRC.

John
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