dvcs-autosync+git is broken by design
Adam Spiers
vcs-home at adamspiers.org
Mon Mar 5 23:19:13 CET 2012
On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Dieter Plaetinck <dieter at plaetinck.be> wrote:
> On Sun, 4 Mar 2012 22:39:22 +0000
> Adam Spiers <vcs-home at adamspiers.org> wrote:
>
>> Sure - I don't mind changes to existing files being autosynced,
>> but I want to manually add new files to the repo myself.
>
> Then you should change "startupcmd = git add -A" to "git add -u"
Consulting my .autosync, it seems I already did that.
> although that's vulnerable to race conditions:
> if you're updating files while 'git add -u' is running, it may abort. The wrapper script I showed should probably be expanded with '-u' and '-A' like support.
Thanks for the heads-up. I don't think this is likely to be an issue
with my anticipated usage patterns.
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