[darcs-devel] [issue1087] darcs revert apologize for using

[Trent Buck]

New submission from Trent Buck <trentbuck at gmail.com>:

Currently I'm doing a "darcs record --test".  At the same time, I
tried to do "darcs revert --all debian/compat", but darcs wouldn't let
me, because both commands need an exclusive lock on the repository.

  Waiting for lock /home/twb/VCS/darcs.debian/_darcs/lock
  Couldn't get lock /home/twb/VCS/darcs.debian/_darcs/lock

To a naïve user, this is annoying, because it seems like revert
shouldn't need write access to anything but the working tree.  However
it occurs to me that this conflict might be caused by the unrevert
support.  If that's the case, it'd be nice if the error message looked
something like

  Waiting for lock /home/twb/VCS/darcs.debian/_darcs/lock
  Couldn't get lock /home/twb/VCS/darcs.debian/_darcs/lock

  Darcs revert needs exclusive write access to _darcs in order to
  create a backup of the reverted content for use by darcs unrevert.

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title: darcs revert apologize for using

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