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Re: Do we have an alternative to tag, to record status of cvs repo
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Eric Siegerman |
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Re: Do we have an alternative to tag, to record status of cvs repo |
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Tue, 6 May 2003 14:37:01 -0400 |
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On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 10:10:03AM -0700, Paul Sander wrote:
> [...] my checkout
> used RCS directly. Bypassing the CVS directory-level locking protocol
> is safe under these conditions, because the versions are known in advance
> and are immutable. The RCS file update algorithm and the filesystem
> together avoid problems with lost data in the event that my checkout runs
> concurrently with a commit.
Did you guard against the critical section during a commit when the
,v file doesn't exist, or did you find that in practice the
window's too short to be a problem?
Also, did you manage to make your check-out-er work client/server?
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My Wine works. However it crashes about half the time on startup.
Apparently their simulation of windoze API is getting too accurate. :)
- Kyle Sallee