transaction: allow registering a temporary transaction file
During the transaction, files may be created to store or expose data
involved in the transaction (eg: changelog index data are written in
a 'changelog.i.a' for hooks). But we do not have an official way to
record such file creation and make sure they are cleaned up. The lack
of clean-up is currently okay because there is a single file involved
and a single producer/consumer.
However, as we want to expose more data (bookmarks, phases, obsmarker)
we need something more solid. The 'backupentries' mechanism could
handle that. Temporary files can be encoded as a backup of nothing
'('', <temporarypath>)'. We "need" to attach it to the same mechanism
as we use to be able to use temporary transaction files outside of
.'store/' and 'backupentries' is expected to gain such feature.
This changeset makes it clear that we should rename 'backupentries' to
something more generic.
#!/usr/bin/env python
__doc__ = """Same as `echo a >> b`, but ensures a changed mtime of b.
Without this svn will not detect workspace changes."""
import sys, os
text = sys.argv[1]
fname = sys.argv[2]
f = open(fname, "ab")
try:
before = os.fstat(f.fileno()).st_mtime
f.write(text)
f.write("\n")
finally:
f.close()
inc = 1
now = os.stat(fname).st_mtime
while now == before:
t = now + inc
inc += 1
os.utime(fname, (t, t))
now = os.stat(fname).st_mtime