Re: Do we have an alternative to tag, to record status of cvs repo

[Eric Siegerman]

On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 10:10:03AM -0700, Paul Sander wrote:
> [...] my checkout
> used RCS directly.  Bypassing the CVS directory-level locking protocol
> is safe under these conditions, because the versions are known in advance
> and are immutable.  The RCS file update algorithm and the filesystem
> together avoid problems with lost data in the event that my checkout runs
> concurrently with a commit.

Did you guard against the critical section during a commit when the
,v file doesn't exist, or did you find that in practice the
window's too short to be a problem?

Also, did you manage to make your check-out-er work client/server?

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