[PATCH 1 of 8] largefiles: replace "_isXXXXing" attributes with "_lfautocommit"
Sean Farley
sean.michael.farley at gmail.com
Mon Sep 22 17:02:29 UTC 2014
Mads Kiilerich writes:
> I wonder if we should try a different approach. As you point out, it is
> almost impossible to do the right thing in the internal commit functions
> - they don't have enough context. One alternative could be to hook in at
> the very low level, updating the standin files whenever they are read
> and propagate their change whenever they are written. Another approach
> would be to do all synchronization before/after calling in to core
> Mercurial and let the core pretty much treat standin files like any
> other file. I have played around with that approach and posted a proof
> of concept.
Just a shot in the dark here, but what about using a custom context
object (that will soon grow a commit method)?
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