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Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] push: document --lockref
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Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> writes:

> <bikeshed>
> The name "--lockref" is OK, but for me it's less a question of
> "locking", because as far as the user is concerned the push is an atomic
> operation so there is no sense of a "lock" that is being held for a
> finite period of time.

Yeah, I think this is more like "taking a lease".