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diff --git a/using-git.texinfo b/using-git.texinfo index 9a0142c..a47ea25 100644 --- a/using-git.texinfo +++ b/using-git.texinfo @@ -1313,7 +1313,7 @@ is annoying. * Git and empty directories:: @c TODO * Git and file renames:: @c TODO * Git and encoding convertions:: -@c TODO * Git and atomic commits:: +* Git and atomic commits:: @end menu @@ -1513,6 +1513,32 @@ file inside it. +@node Git and atomic commits +@section Git and atomic commits + +This might seem obvious, but CVS, +ClearCase and Visual SourceSafe, +does not implement this; atomic +commits. Atomic commits refers +to a guarantee att an action cannot +be interrupted and leave in a +partially complete state but be +marked at complete, either all +changes are made or none at all. + +Basically this means that first +you backup the reference to the +current commit, mark a file as a +commit is being saved, store +the new commit, update the reference +to the current commit to point at +the new commit and then mark that +no commit is being saved. If the +mark is then detected to say that +not commit is being save but instead +absolutely anything else, restore +the state in the same manner. + @node Beyond Git |