From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: lars.schneider@autodesk.com, git@vger.kernel.org,
t.gummerer@gmail.com, jrnieder@gmail.com,
Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 2/2] entry.c: check if file exists after checkout
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2017 02:05:43 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171006060542.llx4golnkuxksy7z@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqd160x16i.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
On Fri, Oct 06, 2017 at 03:03:49PM +0900, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
>
> > I don't know if we wanted to capture any of the reasoning behind using
> > error() here or not. Frankly, I'm not sure how to argue for it
> > succinctly. :) I'm happy with letting it live on in the list archive.
>
> Are you talking about the "philosophical" thing?
Right, whether we ought to just mark the entry as stat-dirty and return
success.
> Because we cannot quite tell between the two cases (one is error--we
> wrote or we thought we wrote, but we cannot find it, the other is
> dubious--somebody was racing with us in the filesystem), I think it
> is reasonable to err on the safer side, even though an error abort
> while doing "as we know we wrote the thing that match the index, we
> might as well lstat and mark the cache entry as up-to-date" might be
> a bit irritating.
OK. I can live with that line of thought.
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-10-06 6:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-05 10:44 [PATCH v1 0/2] fix temporary garbage in the cache entry lars.schneider
2017-10-05 10:44 ` [PATCH v1 1/2] entry.c: update cache entry only for existing files lars.schneider
2017-10-05 11:12 ` Jeff King
2017-10-05 11:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-10-05 11:26 ` Jeff King
2017-10-05 23:01 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-10-06 4:54 ` Jeff King
2017-10-08 21:37 ` Lars Schneider
2017-10-09 17:47 ` Jeff King
2017-10-09 17:48 ` [PATCH 1/3] write_entry: fix leak when retrying delayed filter Jeff King
2017-10-10 0:00 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-10-10 9:23 ` Simon Ruderich
2017-10-10 9:25 ` Jeff King
2017-10-10 9:49 ` Simon Ruderich
2017-10-09 17:48 ` [PATCH 2/3] write_entry: avoid reading blobs in CE_RETRY case Jeff King
2017-10-10 0:00 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-10-09 17:50 ` [PATCH 3/3] write_entry: untangle symlink and regular-file cases Jeff King
2017-10-10 0:03 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-10-05 10:44 ` [PATCH v1 2/2] entry.c: check if file exists after checkout lars.schneider
2017-10-05 11:23 ` Jeff King
2017-10-06 4:26 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-10-06 4:56 ` Jeff King
2017-10-06 6:03 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-10-06 6:05 ` Jeff King [this message]
2017-10-06 7:58 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-10-08 21:41 ` Lars Schneider
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