"Atomic" in this context means "All or nothing", i.e. when you commit a change set, either all changes are committed, or none. This ensures that the svn repository is always in a consistent state. In certain other version control systems (e.g. Visual Source Safe), commits (or checkins) are not atomic. If there is a network or system failure in the middle of a check-in action (while checking in multiple changed files), your version control database ends up being inconsistent.
see also http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/svn.basic.in-action.html#svn.basic.in-action.revs greetz, jeroen On 24 dec, 06:39, Bernie <[email protected]> wrote: > The term atomic is used many time in relation to Subversion. For > example, atomic transactions. My understanding of the work atomic > would mean "little" or "very small". Is this the correct meaning; Very > small transactions? > > Thanks, > Bernie
