Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 16:39:09 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@village.org> Cc: ru@FreeBSD.ORG, sheldonh@starjuice.net, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adding support for a global src tree serial number Message-ID: <3C59E3AD.B43D374F@mindspring.com> References: <79300.1012474898@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> <20020131140403.A69232@sunbay.com> <20020131.091003.108028797.imp@village.org>
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"M. Warner Losh" wrote: > : This scheme won't work because the state of the tree can be modified > : by CVS meisters performing direct operations on a repository. See > : how stealthy the latest GCC import gone. > > Also right now two committers can be committing to different parts of > the tree at the same time, so A might get his src commit in first, but > get the second serial because B races his commit in and wins the race > for the global serial number. Worse. If you have explicit file lists spanning two directories, you can have two overlapping commits occuring at the same time in inverse directions, resulting in conflicts for both committers. 8-). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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