From: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: "Jeff King" <peff@peff.net>,
"Jonathan Nieder" <jrnieder@gmail.com>,
"Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy" <pclouds@gmail.com>,
"Stefan Beller" <sbeller@google.com>,
"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>,
"David Turner" <novalis@novalis.org>,
"Brandon Williams" <bmwill@google.com>,
"Git Mailing List" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 21/28] commit_packed_refs(): use a staging file separate from the lockfile
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2017 16:49:33 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMy9T_Hj5sYwwoA4mBZFbUmriAzSaW4VWYwB3F-3DQ-6UpBU3A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqzibtbje5.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
I just submitted a patch [1] that fixes the `packed-refs`-is-a-symlink
problem in combination with git-new-workdir.
I haven't considered any possible problems related to
`core.preferSymlinkRefs`. That behavior should be unaffected by the
packed-ref-store patch series and I'm not very interested in working
on it.
Michael
[1] https://public-inbox.org/git/d0da02a8b6f0272fa70ae3b1dc80fee6c6ee8d18.1501111803.git.mhagger@alum.mit.edu/
On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 2:43 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
>
>> On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 10:09:15AM -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
>>
>>> Jeff King wrote:
>>>
>>> > This seems like the correct path to me. If the existing behavior is to
>>> > lock the referring symref, that seems like a violation of the lock
>>> > procedure in the first place. Because if "A" points to "B", we take
>>> > "A.lock" and then modify "B". But "B" may have any number of "A" links
>>> > pointing to it, eliminating the purpose of the lock.
>>> >
>>> > I thought we already did this, though. And that modifying HEAD (which
>>> > might be a symlink) required LOCK_NO_DEREF.
>>>
>>> Yes, I believe the lockfile API already does so. Since this patch
>>> creates a ".new" file, not using the lockfile API, it doesn't benefit
>>> from that, though.
>>
>> Ah, I see. This bug makes much more sense, then. And I agree doubly that
>> matching the lock-code's behavior is the right thing to do.
>
> OK. Anybody wants to take a crack at it (it is of lower priority to
> me during the -rc freeze to deal with problems in topics on 'next'
> or higher)?
>
> Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-07-26 23:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-06-15 14:47 [PATCH 00/28] Create a reference backend for packed refs Michael Haggerty
2017-06-15 14:47 ` [PATCH 01/28] add_packed_ref(): teach function to overwrite existing refs Michael Haggerty
2017-06-15 14:47 ` [PATCH 02/28] packed_ref_store: new struct Michael Haggerty
2017-06-15 14:47 ` [PATCH 03/28] packed_ref_store: move `packed_refs_path` here Michael Haggerty
2017-06-16 5:30 ` Stefan Beller
2017-06-15 14:47 ` [PATCH 04/28] packed_ref_store: move `packed_refs_lock` member here Michael Haggerty
2017-06-16 5:39 ` Stefan Beller
2017-06-16 6:43 ` Michael Haggerty
2017-06-16 15:44 ` Stefan Beller
2017-06-15 14:47 ` [PATCH 05/28] clear_packed_ref_cache(): take a `packed_ref_store *` parameter Michael Haggerty
2017-06-15 14:47 ` [PATCH 06/28] validate_packed_ref_cache(): " Michael Haggerty
2017-06-15 14:47 ` [PATCH 07/28] get_packed_ref_cache(): " Michael Haggerty
2017-06-15 14:47 ` [PATCH 08/28] get_packed_refs(): " Michael Haggerty
2017-06-15 14:47 ` [PATCH 09/28] add_packed_ref(): " Michael Haggerty
2017-06-15 14:47 ` [PATCH 10/28] lock_packed_refs(): " Michael Haggerty
2017-06-15 14:47 ` [PATCH 11/28] commit_packed_refs(): " Michael Haggerty
2017-06-15 14:47 ` [PATCH 12/28] rollback_packed_refs(): " Michael Haggerty
2017-06-15 14:47 ` [PATCH 13/28] get_packed_ref(): " Michael Haggerty
2017-06-15 14:47 ` [PATCH 14/28] repack_without_refs(): " Michael Haggerty
2017-06-15 14:47 ` [PATCH 15/28] packed_peel_ref(): new function, extracted from `files_peel_ref()` Michael Haggerty
2017-06-16 5:42 ` Stefan Beller
2017-06-16 6:46 ` Michael Haggerty
2017-06-16 15:47 ` Stefan Beller
2017-06-15 14:47 ` [PATCH 16/28] packed_ref_store: support iteration Michael Haggerty
2017-06-15 14:47 ` [PATCH 17/28] packed_read_raw_ref(): new function, replacing `resolve_packed_ref()` Michael Haggerty
2017-06-15 14:47 ` [PATCH 18/28] packed-backend: new module for handling packed references Michael Haggerty
2017-06-16 5:48 ` Stefan Beller
2017-06-15 14:47 ` [PATCH 19/28] packed_ref_store: make class into a subclass of `ref_store` Michael Haggerty
2017-06-15 14:47 ` [PATCH 20/28] commit_packed_refs(): report errors rather than dying Michael Haggerty
2017-06-15 14:47 ` [PATCH 21/28] commit_packed_refs(): use a staging file separate from the lockfile Michael Haggerty
2017-07-20 23:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-07-20 23:30 ` Jonathan Nieder
2017-07-21 6:01 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-07-21 7:14 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-07-24 16:59 ` Jeff King
2017-07-24 17:09 ` Jonathan Nieder
2017-07-24 17:10 ` Jeff King
2017-07-24 21:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-07-26 23:49 ` Michael Haggerty [this message]
2017-06-15 14:47 ` [PATCH 22/28] packed_refs_lock(): function renamed from lock_packed_refs() Michael Haggerty
2017-06-15 14:47 ` [PATCH 23/28] packed_refs_lock(): report errors via a `struct strbuf *err` Michael Haggerty
2017-06-15 14:47 ` [PATCH 24/28] packed_refs_unlock(), packed_refs_is_locked(): new functions Michael Haggerty
2017-06-15 14:47 ` [PATCH 25/28] clear_packed_ref_cache(): don't protest if the lock is held Michael Haggerty
2017-06-15 14:47 ` [PATCH 26/28] commit_packed_refs(): remove call to `packed_refs_unlock()` Michael Haggerty
2017-06-15 14:47 ` [PATCH 27/28] repack_without_refs(): don't lock or unlock the packed refs Michael Haggerty
2017-06-15 14:47 ` [PATCH 28/28] read_packed_refs(): die if `packed-refs` contains bogus data Michael Haggerty
2017-06-19 18:51 ` [PATCH 00/28] Create a reference backend for packed refs Junio C Hamano
2017-06-19 19:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-06-19 19:43 ` Jeff King
2017-06-19 19:53 ` Jeff King
2017-06-22 7:36 ` Michael Haggerty
2017-06-22 15:33 ` Junio C Hamano
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