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| John A Meinel (jameinel) wrote Re: Should refuse to switch threads if doing so would cause a WT conflict | #1 |
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Another example which is somewhat less "trivial".
A user has been struck with inspiration and gone on a bug fixing spree, and now needs a way to separate out their changes into a more logical set of patches.
At this point they have a fairly involved set of changes in the WT which are being split up while switching between threads.
While in the process of deciding what changes go where, they sometimes do a test switch, to see if this change would fit best in that thread.
If that ends up in a conflict,
A) they probably don't want it in that thread after all, and
B) they can't switch to another thread because they now have conflicts that have to be resolved.
having a way to avoid the switch if it would conflict allows them to poke around a bit to find where things fit best, without going through a time-consuming conflict resolution process before they get to jump again.