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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Neal Kreitzinger <nkreitzinger@gmail.com>
Cc: Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>,
	Neal Kreitzinger <neal@rsss.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: concurrent fetches to update same mirror
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 17:57:52 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110105225752.GA9774@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D24F3E9.3070904@gmail.com>

On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 04:42:49PM -0600, Neal Kreitzinger wrote:

> In the case of concurrent pulls to the same non-bare repo, could the
> working tree or index get corrupted, or does git have concurrency
> control mechanisms for this too?

There's a lock on the index, so it shouldn't be corruptable; one process
will just end up waiting. I'm not sure offhand whether writing working
tree files is done under any lock, but I would tend to think not, since
it can be a long process. However, writing the same file twice should be
OK; we unlink the old version and create the new from scratch. So the
first writer will get its write-in-progress unlinked, and the second one
will "win".

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-05 22:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-05 20:33 concurrent fetches to update same mirror Neal Kreitzinger
2011-01-05 20:47 ` Jeff King
2011-01-05 20:51   ` Shawn Pearce
2011-01-05 20:53     ` Jeff King
2011-01-05 21:13       ` Jeff King
2011-01-05 22:34         ` Neal Kreitzinger
2011-01-05 22:42         ` Neal Kreitzinger
2011-01-05 22:57           ` Jeff King [this message]
2011-01-05 23:29         ` Junio C Hamano
2011-01-06 23:45           ` Jeff King
2011-01-07 14:50             ` Marc Branchaud
2011-01-07 14:51               ` Marc Branchaud

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