RE: Troubleshoot clone issue to NFS.

[<steve.norman@thomsonreuters.com>]

On Friday, June 05, 2015 @ 1:18 PM Jeff King [mailto:peff@peff.net] did scribble:

> Sorry, I haven't had a chance to look at it further. It still on my todo
> list. My plan is:
> 
>   1. Devise some torture to tests to see whether my patch series is in
>      fact racy on Linux.
> 
>   2. Assuming it is, scrap it and make a has_sha1_file_quick() which
>      might sometimes return a false negative (if somebody else is
>      repacking). Use that in index-pack (and possibly other places, but
>      we can start with index-pack).
> 
> If we skip step 1 out of pessimism (which I think is a reasonable thing
> to do), then step 2 should not be all that much work. I'm going to be
> offline for a few days, though, so I won't get to it until next week at
> the earliest. If you (or someone else) wants to take a stab at it,
> please feel free.

I've been off myself and wanted to make sure I hadn't missed anything in 
the email threads while I was away as there we rather a lot of them.

Not feeling confident enough to make the changes myself at the moment. 
I think what you are saying is that has_sha1_file_quick() would be the version
from before your change in 45e8a74.  And then use that, but I could be
barking up the wrong tree completely.

Thanks,

Steve