[issue3182] largefiles: inappropriate locking

[Matt Mackall]

New submission from Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com>:

With this script:

hg init a
cd a

cat > .hg/hgrc <<EOF
[extensions]
largefiles=
[hooks]
precommit=hg status
EOF

echo a > a
hg add a
hg ci -Am0

I get:
waiting for lock on working directory of /home/mpm/a held by 'calx:2800'


Having status use blocking locks makes it impossible to do anything useful
inside of a hook and is almost certainly against the lock-only-when-writing
approach Mercurial uses:

http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/LockingDesign

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messages: 18480
nosy: benjamin, kevingessner, mpm, natosha
priority: bug
status: unread
title: largefiles: inappropriate locking

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