Re: [darcs-users] Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

Horst von Brand
2005-02-21T20:29:28Z

zander@kde.org said:
> On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 04:53:06PM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

[...]

> > AFIK all other SCM except arch and darcs always modify the repo, I never
> > heard complains about it, as long as incremental backups are possible
> > and they definitely are possible.

> Well, as you seem to have never been bitten by that bug; let me assure you
> the problem is very real. Each file (,v file) can live in the repo for
> many years and has to servive any spurious writes to be usable. The
> curruption of such files (in my experience) only shows itself if you try
> to access its history; which may be weeks after the corruption started,
> and you can't use a backup for that since you will overwrite new versions
> added since.

Marking files read-only won't save you from corruption by NFS or the disk
or the kernel or... randomly scribbling around.
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