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[34.125.255.209]) by smtp.gmail.com with UTF8SMTPSA id d9443c01a7336-23acb2e2465sm109878555ad.45.2025.07.01.09.14.20 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Tue, 01 Jul 2025 09:14:20 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Junio C Hamano From: Junio C Hamano To: Patrick Steinhardt Cc: "brian m. carlson" , Karthik Nayak , K Jayatheerth , ryenus@gmail.com, git@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Re [bug] pull --prune could not delete references due to lock file already exists error In-Reply-To: (Patrick Steinhardt's message of "Tue, 1 Jul 2025 12:31:06 +0200") References: <20250625141849.78834-1-jayatheerthkulkarni2005@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2025 09:14:19 -0700 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Patrick Steinhardt writes: > I'd really like to start thinking about reftables as the default > backend. They fix filesystem-specific issues, compress better, are more > efficient in most (not all) use cases, sometimes significantly so, have > better properties when it comes to repository maintenance. We could for > example make "features.experimental" enable the reftable backend by > default and add a note to the Git 3.0 breaking changes in that spirit. I am a bit surprised that there is no reference to reftable in the breaking changes document ;-) I am all for allowing users to opt into it dynamically, and feature.experimental is the ideal mechanism to do so. Currently it sets four configuration variables, and making it five would not make it too scary for adventurous users. > I bet there's also tons of scripts out there that just reach into the > filesystem to do stuff, but that's something that we cannot really help > with. I thought you've done enough to make sure that common things people would want to do by direct access to the .git/refs/ hierarchy can be easily done with plumbing commands instead, so it would probably be a matter of writing and publicizing the "how to migrate to the world where you cannot write into files under .git/refs/ directory" document? Thanks.