From: Daira Hopwood Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2015 13:00:32 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Clarify corner cases in the conflict/overwrite decision. X-Git-Url: https://git.rkrishnan.org/components/%22news.html/module-simplejson.decoder.html?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9b13fb1ef083af4b298c984c17f3201c99048de2;p=tahoe-lafs%2Ftahoe-lafs.git Clarify corner cases in the conflict/overwrite decision. Signed-off-by: Daira Hopwood --- diff --git a/docs/proposed/magic-folder/remote-to-local-sync.rst b/docs/proposed/magic-folder/remote-to-local-sync.rst index 26f1825d..99d2d81c 100644 --- a/docs/proposed/magic-folder/remote-to-local-sync.rst +++ b/docs/proposed/magic-folder/remote-to-local-sync.rst @@ -690,9 +690,9 @@ Fire Dragons: Distinguishing conflicts from overwrites When synchronizing a file that has changed remotely, the Magic Folder client needs to distinguish between overwrites, in which the remote -side was aware of your most recent version and overwrote it with a -new version, and conflicts, in which the remote side was unaware of -your most recent version when it published its new version. Those two +side was aware of your most recent version (if any) and overwrote it +with a new version, and conflicts, in which the remote side was unaware +of your most recent version when it published its new version. Those two cases have to be handled differently — the latter needs to be raised to the user as an issue the user will have to resolve and the former must not bother the user. @@ -776,12 +776,11 @@ Let ``last_downloaded_uri`` be the field of that name obtained from the directory entry metadata for ``foo`` in Bob's DMD (this field may be absent). Then the algorithm is: -* 2a. If Alice has no local copy of ``foo``, classify as an overwrite. +* 2a. Attempt to "stat" ``foo`` to get its *current statinfo* (size + in bytes, ``mtime``, and ``ctime``). If Alice has no local copy + of ``foo``, classify as an overwrite. -* 2b. Otherwise, "stat" ``foo`` to get its *current statinfo* (size - in bytes, ``mtime``, and ``ctime``). - -* 2c. Read the following information for the path ``foo`` from the +* 2b. Read the following information for the path ``foo`` from the local magic folder db: * the *last-uploaded statinfo*, if any (this is the size in @@ -791,11 +790,12 @@ may be absent). Then the algorithm is: for this file, which is the URI under which the file was last uploaded. -* 2d. If any of the following are true, then classify as a conflict: +* 2c. If any of the following are true, then classify as a conflict: * there are pending notifications of changes to ``foo``; - * the last-uploaded statinfo is either absent, or different - from the current statinfo; + * the last-uploaded statinfo is either absent (i.e. there is no + entry in the database for this path), or different from the + current statinfo; * either ``last_downloaded_uri`` or ``last_uploaded_uri`` (or both) are absent, or they are different.