* Locking the repository
@ 2005-05-06 12:31 Thomas Glanzmann
2005-05-06 16:15 ` Linus Torvalds
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From: Thomas Glanzmann @ 2005-05-06 12:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: GIT
Hello,
I need a way to lock a repository for certain actions. What can I use to
obtain this? Is there a way to use rsync for that? It should also be
NFS-safe. Are there are any classic unix tools that I can use for this?
Thomas
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* Re: Locking the repository
2005-05-06 12:31 Locking the repository Thomas Glanzmann
@ 2005-05-06 16:15 ` Linus Torvalds
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From: Linus Torvalds @ 2005-05-06 16:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Thomas Glanzmann; +Cc: GIT
On Fri, 6 May 2005, Thomas Glanzmann wrote:
>
> I need a way to lock a repository for certain actions.
Nope - if you want to serialize something, you'll need to write your own
serialization scripts. git doesn't care, because all the git operations
should be totally lockless already. There just isn't any reason to lock as
far as git is concerned, since the objects are immutable.
The only exception is the "index" file, where we don't want concurrect
index updates. So that is handled by writers creating the new "index.lock"
file first, and then when they are done, they rename it to "index".
Linus
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