Re: Darcs-git: a few notes for Git hackers

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In such cases, manual intervention is necessary anyway -- a file could
have been written half-way.

In the case of git, it should not be necessary even then; there might
be a broken file in the repository but nothing would reference it so
it shouldn't have any effect.  Functionally speaking, operations on
the git repository are in themselves atomic.

Yes, you're right.

I still prefer using a lockfile to flock -- NFS-safety is important
for us.  And experience with the Darcs user base (who are probably
less Unix-savvy then the Git userbase) shows that they have no problem
doing

  $ ps
  $ rm _darcs/lock
  $ darcs check

when Darcs complains about a stray lockfile.

                                        Juliusz