Re: Locks on the Bzr repository

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 10:36:25 +0200
> From: Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> Uday S Reddy skrev 2010-08-21 00.41:
> 
> > Seems to me that you are reinforcing Stephen's point. With bound branches,
> > your branch is locked up until the commit goes through. You can't do anything
> > while you have uncommitted changes in your source. With unbound branches, we
> > can continue working on the source even when push is running in the
> > background, because the source tree doesn't have any uncommitted changes. We
> > can also give up on the push if necessary and continue committing to the
> > branch. The advantage seems quite clear to me.
> 
> You are ignoring the fact that work usually doesn't happen in the bound 
> branch, but in a separate task branch.  We can continue to work there while 
> the bound branch commits.

Actually, I see no reason not to continue working even in the bound
branch that is being committed.  There's nothing at all to prevent
that, since Bazaar takes note of the files it commits and their
contents _before_ it sends changes upstream.  That is why you cannot
make changes after launching "bzr ci" and hope for them to be included
in the changeset.  (This is unlike CVS, where you could make changes
as long as the particular file wasn't sent upstream by "cvs ci".)