[boost] Re: CVS repository locked?

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-03-07 01:22:45

Beman Dawes wrote:
> At 11:04 AM 3/6/2003, Vladimir Prus wrote:
>  >I see this, when doing update:
>  >
>  >cvs server: [07:46:57] waiting for beman_dawes's lock in
>  >/cvsroot/boost/boost/tools/build
>  >.....
>  >cvs server: [08:02:58] waiting for beman_dawes's lock in
>  >/cvsroot/boost/boost/tools/build
>  >
>  >Beman, is there anything you can do about it? Like killing client or
>  >updating again? Or
>  >ony sourceforge admins are in position to fix this?
>
> If it really was a hung lock, only the sourceforge people can unlock it.
>
> But more likely you just happened to access during the more than an hour it
> took to apply the merged_to_RC_1_30_0 tag. There was a delay of more than
> ten minutes right at the end with no apparent activity.

I had this for more than 10 mins, but now everything's OK. 

> I don't know why it took so long, unless it had to do with tagging at a
> past date rather than the current state.

More than an hour? Well, tagging is O(N) is CVS, after all...

- Volodya