Re: [PATCH] Fix handle leak in builtin-pack-objects

["Alex Riesen" <raa.lkml@gmail.com>]

2008/11/19 Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>:
> On Wed, 19 Nov 2008, Johannes Sixt wrote:
>> Alex Riesen schrieb:
>> > 2008/11/19 Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>:
>> >> On Wed, 19 Nov 2008, Johannes Sixt wrote:
>> >>> The work-around is to write the repacked objects to a file of a different
>> >>> name, and replace the original after git-pack-objects has terminated.
>> >>>
>> >>> Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
>> >> Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
>> >
>> > Are you sure? Will it work in a real repository? Were noone does
>> > rename the previous pack files into packtmp-something?
>>
>> Oh, the patch only works around the failure in the test case. In a real
>> repository there is usually no problem because the destination pack file
>> does not exist.
>>
>> The unusual case is where you do this:
>>
>>  $ git rev-list -10 HEAD | git pack-objects foobar
>>
>> twice in a row: In this case the second invocation fails on Windows
>> because the destination pack file already exists *and* is open. But not
>> even git-repack does this even if it is called twice. OTOH, the test case
>> *does* exactly this.
>
> OK.... Well, despite my earlier assertion, I think the above should be a
> valid operation.
>
> I'm looking at it now.  I'm therefore revoking my earlier ACK as well
> (better keep that test case alive).
>

Any news here?