Re: [Flightgear-devel] atomic terrasync, or not

2010-03-06 Thread Alex Perry
Sorry, I've only just noticed this message sitting in my to-do pile. An interesting point because , yes, checkouts are not atomic. It wouldn't be hard to extend the code to retrofit atomicity around the svn code using directory renames and the like, but before we put the effort into the code

[Flightgear-devel] atomic terrasync, or not

2010-02-02 Thread John Denker
Hi -- When terrasync is running, are the updates atomic? I suspect not, since terrasync depends on svn, and AFAIK svn commits are atomic but checkouts are not. I've seem some pretty weird irreproducible results which might be explained by FG reading half of a new file plus half of an old file