Issue 1087: more informative explanation for darcs revert lock - Darcs bug tracker

Title	more informative explanation for darcs revert lock
Priority	wishlist	Status	needs-implementation
Milestone		Resolved in
Superseder		Nosy List	MaicoLeberle, darcs-devel, dmitry.kurochkin, jaredj, kowey, mdiaz, thorkilnaur, twb
Assigned To	MaicoLeberle	Topics	ProbablyEasy, UI

Created on 2008-09-20.00:53:49 by twb, last changed 2015-03-27.22:32:09 by gh.

Messages
msg6060 (view)	Author: twb	Date: 2008-09-20.00:53:46
Currently I'm doing a "darcs record --test". At the same time, I tried to do "darcs revert --all debian/compat", but darcs wouldn't let me, because both commands need an exclusive lock on the repository. Waiting for lock /home/twb/VCS/darcs.debian/_darcs/lock Couldn't get lock /home/twb/VCS/darcs.debian/_darcs/lock To a naïve user, this is annoying, because it seems like revert shouldn't need write access to anything but the working tree. However it occurs to me that this conflict might be caused by the unrevert support. If that's the case, it'd be nice if the error message looked something like Waiting for lock /home/twb/VCS/darcs.debian/_darcs/lock Couldn't get lock /home/twb/VCS/darcs.debian/_darcs/lock Darcs revert needs exclusive write access to _darcs in order to create a backup of the reverted content for use by darcs unrevert.
msg6433 (view)	Author: droundy	Date: 2008-10-24.19:37:14
Revert needs lock in order to make unrevert safe. David

History
Date	User	Action	Args
2008-09-20 00:53:49	twb	create
2008-09-21 12:38:39	droundy	set	priority: wishlist nosy: kowey, dagit, simon, twb
2008-09-21 12:38:52	droundy	set	nosy: kowey, dagit, simon, twb title: darcs revert apologize for using -> darcs revert shouldn't need lock
2008-10-24 19:37:17	droundy	set	status: unread -> unknown nosy: + dmitry.kurochkin, droundy, thorkilnaur messages: + msg6433
2009-08-06 18:01:25	admin	set	nosy: + markstos, jast, Serware, darcs-devel, zooko, mornfall, tommy, beschmi, - droundy, twb
2009-08-06 21:12:43	admin	set	nosy: - beschmi
2009-08-10 21:48:47	admin	set	nosy: + twb, - tommy, markstos, darcs-devel, zooko, jast, Serware, mornfall
2009-08-10 23:46:00	admin	set	nosy: - dagit
2009-08-22 11:27:20	kowey	set	status: unknown -> needs-implementation nosy: + jaredj topic: + ProbablyEasy title: darcs revert shouldn't need lock -> more informative explanation for darcs revert lock
2009-08-25 17:24:48	admin	set	nosy: + darcs-devel, - simon
2009-08-26 14:11:58	kowey	set	topic: + UI nosy: kowey, darcs-devel, twb, thorkilnaur, jaredj, dmitry.kurochkin
2009-08-27 14:33:15	admin	set	nosy: kowey, darcs-devel, twb, thorkilnaur, jaredj, dmitry.kurochkin
2014-03-22 23:35:58	gh	set	assignedto: mdiaz nosy: + mdiaz
2015-03-27 22:32:09	gh	set	assignedto: mdiaz -> MaicoLeberle nosy: + MaicoLeberle