Re: Next Steps: CVS Import Bug - Please Respond

[Larry Jones]

Derek Price writes:
> 
> Import is closer to commit than to tag, and I like locking the whole
> tree before import because it means that retrieving a snapshot of a
> project by date is more likely to retrieve trees in consistent states,
> and is usually possible with a little informed eye-balling when choosing
> the date.  The end result is something closer to atomic writes even if
> we aren't entirely atomic yet.

There are plusses and minuses to both approaches and I don't have any
strong preference for one over the other as the ultimate solution to the
problem.  My goal is just to get *some* fix for this serious oversight
implemented as soon as possible and directory-at-a-time locking should
be significantly simpler than whole tree.

-Larry Jones

I must have been delirious from having so much fun. -- Calvin