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From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 2/2] Verify index file before we opportunistically
 update it
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2014 07:10:18 +0700
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On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 3:43 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Having said that, nobody sane would be running two simultaneous
> operations that are clearly write-oriented competing with each other
> against the same index file.

When it comes to racing, sanity does not matter much. People could
just do it without thinking what exactly is happening behind the
scene.

> So in that sense that can be done as a less urgent follow-up for this topic.

Yeah if racing at refresh time is a real problem, sure we should solve it first.
-- 
Duy