Odd behaviour for random files

[Matt Mackall]

On Tue, 2011-05-17 at 22:21 +0200, Jan Olsen wrote:
> On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 21:52, Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com> wrote:
> 
> There are plenty of projects with an order of magnitude more code and
> > users than you and an order of magnitude less bandwidth that would laugh
> > heartily at "I can't commit because it's a weekday".
> >
> 
> That sentence is sooo out of context :(.
> 
> It's not easy to make a "hg update" to an earlier version with 13.000-ish
> files on a file server during a weekday, because files get locked on the
> network share - blame our windows workstations.

But that's still a symptom of abusing Mercurial. If you were working
locally and privately (as designed) rather than on a distant shared
resource, the problem wouldn't exist.

You're obviously free to use Mercurial in whatever way suits you, but
you're definitely in uncharted territory when you wander this far from
recommended usage.

> One could've hoped that Mercurial would just skip those locked files instead
> of completely bailing out, but let that be for now.

Giving people inconsistent check-outs is just inviting them to do
inconsistent check-ins. We should in fact be stricter here, not more
lenient.

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