Re: [PATCH] connected.c: reprepare packs for corner cases

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com> writes:

> I wonder if we could do something more complicated in the long-term,
> which was recommended to me by Jeff Hostetler: add the pack to the
> packed_git list once we've indexed it. That way, we don't reprepare
> and scan the packs one-by-one, but instead we insert to the list
> a single pack that we already know about.

Yup, that was the first thing that came to my mind, i.e. the code
that installs a new packfile on disk in our repository must be ours,
so we should be able to tell that code to add the new packfile to
the in-core list without having to scan.

We may still need to scan when that strategy "fails" to protect
against racing with simultaneous repacking, though.