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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] transactions over config
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Tom Lord |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] transactions over config |
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Wed, 31 Mar 2004 21:52:04 -0800 (PST) |
> From: Dustin Sallings <address@hidden>
> On Mar 31, 2004, at 12:23, Milan Cvetkovic wrote:
> > The question is, can I commit using one transaction acros multiple
> > subprojects?
> No. Your subprojects may be hosted in different locations using
> different protocols, etc...
> More importantly, if you want arrange stuff into subprojects, you
> should treat them as independent things. To use your example, if you
> make an incompatible change to a library in a configed project and
> update the portion of the project that uses that library, you might be
> tempted to commit them atomically, but you have to consider all of the
> other users of the library that weren't even part of that project.
> In that case, I think it makes sense to change the library, and then
> change the users of the library.
However .....
The question was about atomic commits of multi-project configurations.
Well, put the configuration itself in some arch project and then
commits to that config-containing project atomically draw a line
across the patch-level frontier of the constituent projects.
-t
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