[Kde-scm-interest] Have we arrived to a dead end?

[Thiago Macieira]

Em Sábado 13. Fevereiro 2010, às 12.51.42, Oswald Buddenhagen escreveu:
> and if one wanted to go really overboard, one could implement a proper
> transactional system in which the repos coordinate with each other
> directly. i mean, distributed databases isn't really a completely new
> research topic.

I hope you were not thinking of having the repositories coordinate the 
locking. This has to be client-driven: the client locks all the repository 
branches it wants to push to, then it pushes, then unlocks.

Otherwise you'd end up requiring that you can only push to one server.

But with a client-driven locking, the servers might want to time out the 
locking, which means you'll be limited in time (and thus amount of data) that 
you can "atomically" push.

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