Dean Do wrote: > Is there a way for me to change this rtag behavior where > it only locks one directory at a time as it tags the files > in that directory?
This is new behavior as of 1.11.1p1. Here is a post from Larry Jones from a couple months back that describes the reason for this behavior. > It's an important bug fix, implemented sub-optimally. The directory-at- > a-time locking was seriously flawed in that CVS actually read the RCS > files and cached some of their contents *before* locking the directory. > That means that it was possible for a commit to happen between the time > that tag first read the file and the time it locked the directory; when > the file was rewritten to apply the tag, the commit would be lost. > > Because of the way CVS is architected, the only easy way to solve the > problem was to lock the whole directory tree up-front, like commit does. > Fixing the directory-at-a-time locking would be a better fix, but it > would also require a *lot* of effort. > > -Larry Jones Your repository is locked for 20 minutes, while ours was being locked for 3 hours (ouch!). I suggest you use some method of walking your source tree and tagging one directory at a time (see the -l option). We've done this with a small Perl script run in a workspace. Therefore, we always use the "tag -l" command now rather than "rtag". Good luck. -Scott -----Original Message----- From: Dean Do [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 3:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: rtag and its locking behavior Hello, I have a question concerning the rtag command and its locking behavior. Whenever I run `cvs rtag` command, it read/write locks the whole tree [all directories] from everyone until it is done tagging every file. Since our sw tree is quite big, this rtag process takes ~20min to complete. Is there a way for me to change this rtag behavior where it only locks one directory at a time as it tags the files in that directory? Once it is done tagging the files in a directory, it should release the lock in that directory and moves to the next one. I can't find anything in the CVS manual on this subject. I'm currently running CVS 1.11.1p1 on Solaris8. I would appreciate any assistance in this. Thanks, Dean _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
