RFC: dirstate & locks

[John Arbash Meinel]

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Robert Collins wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-08-15 at 08:25 -0500, John Arbash Meinel wrote:
>>> 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.
> 
> by 'this' I meant 'take out a write lock'
> 
> -Rob

I'm saying that diff and status already take out a dirstate-write-lock,
which is not very far removed from taking out a WT-level write lock.

John
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