[darcs-users] soc progress 5

Jason Dagit dagit at codersbase.com
Wed Jun 24 04:51:55 UTC 2009


On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 8:34 PM, Trent W. Buck <trentbuck at gmail.com> wrote:

> Petr Rockai <me at mornfall.net> writes:
>
> > I wanted to add [magic to] the index, so we could quickly identify an
> > old (or future) version and discard it immediately (triggering a full
> > index rebuild). [...] endianity conversion for the on-disk
> > format. This can be done together with the magic word.
>
> Suppose Alice and Bob both share a repository (that is, they actually
> make changes to the same working tree) accessed over NFS.  Alice uses a
> PowerPC system and Bob uses and AMD64 system.  Will they "fight" for the
> index file, each time one or the other runs a Darcs command causing the
> index to be regenerated?
>
> I readily admit that this is a silly case, because Alice and Bob
> shouldn't both be *editing* the same repository.  They should make
> branches and then push their work back into the main repository.


Your example may be contrived, but what about pushing to a mutually
accessible repository?

Jason
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