Doug Cutting wrote: > I think the need for that would disappear if the lockless commit patch > gets committed. Then there'd be no reason not to put lock files > directly in the index directory, since only writers would need to lock > things.
Great! and so we also get rid of this risk: > .. source for possible problems, when users mis configure > their lock prefixes. - if the index path was not configured > correctly, the index would not be found, and this is likely > to be found and fixed pretty soon. But if lock path prefixes > are misconfigured, chances are that the index would get corrupted. So this is an additional advantage of lock-less commits (patch 701). --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]