lock-breaking ui

[Robey Pointer]

On 26 Feb 2006, at 12:30, James Blackwell wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 10:59:38PM -0800, Robey Pointer wrote:
>> Breaking locks should be very rare, and have some warnings associated
>> with it.  It comes with the explicit risk of branch corruption.  (The
>> only time I ever had to break arch's locks were due to bugs in arch's
>> interaction with gpg.  Aside from that, I probably would've never had
>> the need to break locks.)
>
> Definitely not rare. I get one or two requests a month for how to  
> break
> locks. I had one yesterday, in fact.

This sounds like a bug in bzr, then. :(  Bug reports of "this is what  
I did to get a dangling lock left behind" would probably be useful.

IMHO, there's no reason we can't make lock-breaking be a rare operation.

robey