[chef] Re: Lock vs. Snapshot

[Jos Backus < >]

On 9/17/15, 4:18 PM, "Lamont Granquist" 
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>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.

Thanks for your response, and for reminding me of the unfortunate precedent 
of Gemfile.lock. It does make sense to be consistent indeed.

Jos

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