[Gnu-arch-users] newbie lockpicks

[Aaron Bentley]

Tom Lord wrote:

> The weird thing is, it's very, very, very common for newbies
> (presumably mostly coming from CVS) to assume that the condition
> solved by `lock-revision --break' is actually a wedged archive and to
> figure out for themselves how to fix it "by hand" on the server.

As a recent newbie: I started out by deleting revisions.  Then 
discovering I had to recreate the lock directories.  When I encountered 
my first unwanted lock, I already knew how to restore it, so I didn't 
even look for a command.

Aaron
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Aaron Bentley
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