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Clarify corner cases in the conflict/overwrite decision.

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Signed-off-by: Daira Hopwood <daira@jacaranda.org>
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Daira Hopwood 2015-11-04 13:00:32 +00:00
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@ -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.