Re: [Gnu-arch-users] --date

[Dustin Sallings]

On Dec 18, 2003, at 17:10, James Blackwell wrote:

> > Sure, I can put a try/finally block around the relevant code, but it's
> > only *reasonably good* safety, not perfect -- plus there's potential 
> > for
> > issues if the user is trying to use tla concurrently.
>
> Aren't you over-engineering this problem? We're talking about my-id 
> here.
>
> #!/bin/sh
> tla my-id "Something Else <address@hidden>"
> tla dosomethingthatcores
> tla my-id "James Blackwell <address@hidden>"
>
> This would work just fine, provided you could tolerate a race for 
> my-id if
> you ran tla elsewhere.

	I think the most simple solution is to have a --my-id option to 
commit.  Don't change the config, just override it.

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Dustin Sallings