Re: CVS update: subversion/subversion/tests-common svn_test_editor.c

[Jim Blandy <ji...@zwingli.cygnus.com>]

Karl Fogel <kf...@galois.collab.net> writes:
> Greg Hudson <gh...@MIT.EDU> writes:
> > Note that it doesn't actually help much to finish up directories as
> > soon as possible.  If postfix deltas are being used, then all the
> > directories with changed files are going to be tied up until almost
> > the end of the edit.
> 
> Sure, it helps directories finish up as soon as possible, and in fact
> that's exactly how the update editor works now.  When the driver calls
> close_file() on the last open file in a directory D, then D will get
> closed at that time, no matter how many other open file batons there
> are.

Karl dropped a bit here:

Greg said that it's not important to close directories soon --- an
assertion about what goals are worthwhile.

Karl thought Greg said that reference counting(?) doesn't help one
close directories earlier --- an assertion of whether a structure is
helpful in attaining a goal.