[rancid] Rancid and Git

[james machado]

there was a message about git and locks back in 2007
http://www.shrubbery.net/pipermail/rancid-discuss/2007-March/002154.html
that talked about this or something related to this.

best i can remember from past research on using git and rancid.

james

On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 6:37 PM, heasley <heas at shrubbery.net> wrote:
> trying to integrate, test and sanitize the git patch; does anyone know the
> significance of the flock in control_rancid around commits:
>
> +           git )
> +               (
> +                   flock -x 200
> +                   git add $router
> +                   git commit -m "$message"
> +               ) 200>$BASEDIR/.lockfile
>
> git must do its own locking, and rancid does its own per-group.  so,
> paranoia or some special git thing?
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