[chef] Re: Lock vs. Snapshot

[Lamont Granquist < >]

    It parallels the nomenclature of Gemfile and Gemfile.lock and
    Berksfile and Berksfile.lock.  Both of which I could see the
    argument that they're 'snapshots', but the analogy with the prior
    usage of 'lock' in the community is a pretty tight one and changing
    it will probably produce more confusion not less with the same
    concept called 'lock' in one context and 'snapshot' in another.

On 09/17/2015 04:01 PM, Jos Backus wrote:

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Hi,

https://github.com/chef/chef-dk/blob/master/POLICYFILE_README.md talks about ‘lock’, but would ‘snapshot’ not be a better name? After all, it looks like a snapshot of cookbooks and their metadata (although granted the _effect_ is to lock machines in the policy group to those cookbooks). Maybe I misunderstand?

Jos