Re: [SCRIPT] cg-rpush & locking

From: Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>
Date: Jun 2, 2005, 10:04 UTC
Message-ID: <20050602100417.GG16616@kiste.smurf.noris.de>
In-Reply-To: <20050602073205.GA31482@muru.com>

Hi,

Tony Lindgren:

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> I don't think locking for the duration of the push really is a problem.
> It is unlikely that there would be so many people pushing that it would
> cause inconvenience... Of course it would be nice to optimize it if
> possible.
>

Since an 'atomic' cmpxchg operation is actually easier to program than a lockfile with timeout handling etc., I would hope so. ;-)

> I would assume the biggest problem for most people is how they can push
> through a firewall. From that point of view it would make sense to do
> the push as a cgi script rather than something over ssh.

When in doubt, do both ... I'd certainly prefer ssh if at all possible.

> And with a cgi script you can of course optimize the locking and use
> tmp files before renaming which are a bit hard to do with rsync.
>

rsync is going away anyway for git usage (long-term), I'd assume. It certainly becomes more and more ineffective the more our history is growing.

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