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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] "virtual" archives in arch
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Andrew Suffield |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] "virtual" archives in arch |
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Sun, 14 Dec 2003 00:59:20 +0000 |
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On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 04:21:15PM -0500, Mirian Crzig Lennox wrote:
> address@hidden (Charles Duffy) writes:
> > On Sat, 2003-12-13 at 14:11, Mirian Crzig Lennox wrote:
> >> My idea is to create a virtual archive which speaks "pserver" protocol
> >> to a remote CVS server, but supports the interface defined by
> >> arch_archive_vtable in libarch/archive.h. [...]
> >
> > 1> Feasibility. Not all of arch's semantics can be implemented in a CVS
> > repository -- atomic commits, for instance -- while keeping the contents
> > of the repository something that traditional CVS users still find
> > useful; effectively, to maintain arch's useful semantics, you'd have to
> > make arch into another metacvs.
>
> If the CVS repository is not accessible except via the pserver (such
> that there is one and only one process which can modify the
> repository), then commits are in fact atomic.
That is not how pserver works.
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