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["Francis J. Lacoste" <francis.lacoste@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On March 2, 2010, James Westby wrote:
> There would be a couple of ways of fixing this, such as exporting
> bug_heat as a method not as an attribute.
> 

I think we should have a way to mark attribute that shouldn't be part of the 
etag computation.

> We already have something like this with, at least, code, where you race
> with the scanner when pushing up a branch and then modifying an
> attribute of the branch over the API.
> 
> You could argue that script authors should deal with 412 errors, as they
> can happen with concurrent user edits and the like. While that is true,
> I'm not sure we need to be making it more likely to happen, and racing
> with automated tasks is less or a reason to conflict anyway. Plus, the
> facilities for handling conflicts in the API are lacking from where they
> should be if all API users should be dealing with them.


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Francis J. Lacoste
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