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From: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
To: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
Cc: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>,
	John Austin <john@astrangergravity.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, sandals@crustytoothpaste.net,
	larsxschneider@gmail.com, pastelmobilesuit@github.com,
	Joey Hess <id@joeyh.name>
Subject: Re: Git for games working group
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2018 11:57:32 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180917155732.GI71477@syl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874leokw3p.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com>

On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 05:00:10PM +0200, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> >   2. Multi-file locks, e.g., "I need to lock file(s) X, Y, and Z
> >      together." This isn't possible in Git LFS today with the existing "git
> >      lfs lock" command (I had to check, but it takes only _one_ filename as
> >      its argument).
> >
> >      Perhaps it would be nice to support something like this someday in
> >      Git LFS, but I think we would have to reimagine how this would look
> >      in your file.lock scheme.
>
> If you can do it for 1 file you can do it for N with a for-loop, no? So
> is this just a genreal UI issue in git-annex where some commands don't
> take lists of filenames (or git pathspecs) to operate on, or a more
> general issue with locking?

I think that it's more general.

I envision a scenario where between iterations of the for-loop, another
client acquires a lock later on in the list. I think that the general
problem here is that there is no transactional way to express "please
give me all N of these locks".

Thanks,
Taylor

  reply	other threads:[~2018-09-17 15:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-14 17:55 Git for games working group John Austin
2018-09-14 19:00 ` Taylor Blau
2018-09-14 21:09   ` John Austin
2018-09-15 16:40     ` Taylor Blau
2018-09-16 14:55       ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-09-16 20:49         ` John Austin
2018-09-17 13:55         ` Taylor Blau
2018-09-17 14:01           ` Randall S. Becker
2018-09-17 15:00           ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-09-17 15:57             ` Taylor Blau [this message]
2018-09-17 16:21               ` Randall S. Becker
2018-09-17 16:47             ` Joey Hess
2018-09-17 17:23               ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-09-23 17:28                 ` John Austin
2018-09-23 17:56                   ` Randall S. Becker
2018-09-23 19:53                     ` John Austin
2018-09-23 19:55                       ` John Austin
2018-09-23 20:43                       ` Randall S. Becker
2018-09-24 14:01                       ` Taylor Blau
2018-09-24 15:34                         ` John Austin
2018-09-24 19:58                           ` Taylor Blau
2018-09-25  4:05                             ` John Austin
2018-09-25 20:14                               ` Taylor Blau
2018-09-24 13:59                     ` Taylor Blau
2018-09-14 21:13   ` John Austin
2018-09-16  7:56     ` David Aguilar
2018-09-17 13:48       ` Taylor Blau
2018-09-14 21:21 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-09-14 23:36   ` John Austin
2018-09-15 16:42     ` Taylor Blau
2018-09-16 18:17       ` John Austin
2018-09-16 22:05         ` Jonathan Nieder
2018-09-17 13:58           ` Taylor Blau
2018-09-17 15:58             ` Jonathan Nieder
2018-10-03 12:28               ` Thomas Braun

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