Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld at sun.com> writes: > On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 15:02 -0600, Jim Walker wrote: >> Will we need to "lock" the Hg gate for big putbacks like we do now >> with the Teamware gate? > > Yes. > > The reason for locking the gate for large putbacks is to lock out small > conflicting changes which would require a merge/build/test cycle. >
But we'd only need to lock it to writes, the benefit the clone would bring would be to prevent children acquiring such changes 'early' (which is all part of the same 'point-in-time snapshot that probably works' reasoning Mike mentioned already). -- Rich
