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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Jim Hill <gjthill@gmail.com>
Cc: Junio Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] don't add duplicate paths to info/alternates
Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2015 06:53:48 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150601105348.GD31792@peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1433096123-14420-1-git-send-email-gjthill@gmail.com>

On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 11:15:21AM -0700, Jim Hill wrote:

> These patches address
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/269050/focus=269415
> linked from the git blame page, avoiding adding duplicates to info/alternates
> and removing hold_lock_file_for_append which is too heavyweight for logging and
> too limited for anything else.

Thanks. Mentioning that I would like something done and then having it
unexpectedly arrive in my mailbox is like getting a present. :)

I had a few comments on the first patch, and the second looks obviously
correct.

> There's an argument to be made that since a-t-a-f is only used by clone, it
> shouldn't even bother taking a lock -- but then it should be moved to
> builtin/clone.c and reduced to a single write of the pre-deduped list, followed
> by a single read_info_alternates call. One thing at a time.  Taking out the
> locking in the incremental version here doesn't really simplify the code much
> anyway.

Yeah, I agree with all of the reasoning here.

-Peff

      parent reply	other threads:[~2015-06-01 10:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-31 18:15 [PATCH 0/2] don't add duplicate paths to info/alternates Jim Hill
2015-05-31 18:15 ` [PATCH 1/2] add_to_alternates_file: don't add duplicate paths Jim Hill
2015-06-01 10:51   ` Jeff King
2015-05-31 18:15 ` [PATCH 2/2] remove hold_lock_file_for_append Jim Hill
2015-06-01 10:53 ` Jeff King [this message]

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