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locking: wait for locks in `hg cp` and `hg mv`
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Authored by spectral on Apr 21 2020, 4:49 PM.

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I traced this back to revision 1822 (64df422), and there's no explanation why we
would prefer to error out instead of waiting for the locks.

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spectral created this revision.Apr 21 2020, 4:49 PM
marmoute accepted this revision.Apr 22 2020, 3:57 AM
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Maybe because you can't be sure the situation will be the same as the one before you ran the command ? However, normal race condition could still happens so that would not seems like a strong enough reason ? With the current code coverning the full command execution, I feel like this change is fine.

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