Odd behaviour for random files

[Matt Mackall]

On Tue, 2011-05-17 at 09:31 +0200, Jan Olsen wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Unfortunately we run Mercurial over a cross country network (~30Mbit), so
> our commits takes a "tad" longer :).
> 
> We used to run Mercurial over a 1GB network and that time we never
> experienced any odd behaviour. Now on the 30Mbit we have experienced it
> twice.
> 
> A few days ago when I had to run the "hg update -r 1336" there was a problem
> with locked files in the repository, so I had to shut down five other
> computers, before it could finish the update. That was cumbersome but not a
> problem since it was during the weekend. During weekdays I'm afraid it wont
> be possible at all.

If I'm understanding this setup correctly (multiple users committing
directly to a single repository instance over a shared filesystem on a
WAN), then you folks probably deserve an award of some sort for "best
example of how to abuse Mercurial as a non-distributed system".



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