From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Cc: David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>,
Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/24] Yet another pre-refs-backend series
Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2016 19:10:06 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPc5daXvr-doTg482nM164189gjr-M=R8FdDXyVOaduzuepAJA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <57092BA6.1060808@alum.mit.edu>
On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 9:19 AM, Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>
> I think this risk is acceptable nevertheless, because expiring reflogs
> is an uncommon operation and unlikely to be done from two processes at
> the same time; moreover, the integrity of reflogs is not a matter of
> life or death.
> ...
> If somebody is really upset about the risk of a race between an old and
> new version of `git reflog expire`, the way to increase the safety would
> be to lock *both* the symref and the referent while changing the
> symref's reflog. I think that would be overkill.
Thanks, I agree with all of the above.
> This whole series is
>
> Reviewed-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Will squeeze it into all of them, then, and merge to 'next'.
Thanks.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-10 2:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-07 19:02 [PATCH 00/24] Yet another pre-refs-backend series David Turner
2016-04-07 19:02 ` [PATCH 01/24] refs: move head_ref{,_submodule} to the common code David Turner
2016-04-07 19:02 ` [PATCH 02/24] refs: move for_each_*ref* functions into " David Turner
2016-04-07 19:02 ` [PATCH 03/24] t1430: test the output and error of some commands more carefully David Turner
2016-04-08 15:14 ` Michael Haggerty
2016-04-08 19:26 ` David Turner
2016-04-08 20:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-04-08 21:57 ` David Turner
2016-04-07 19:02 ` [PATCH 04/24] t1430: clean up broken refs/tags/shadow David Turner
2016-04-07 19:02 ` [PATCH 05/24] t1430: don't rely on symbolic-ref for creating broken symrefs David Turner
2016-04-07 19:02 ` [PATCH 06/24] t1430: test for-each-ref in the presence of badly-named refs David Turner
2016-04-07 19:02 ` [PATCH 07/24] t1430: improve test coverage of deletion " David Turner
2016-04-07 19:02 ` [PATCH 08/24] resolve_missing_loose_ref(): simplify semantics David Turner
2016-04-07 19:02 ` [PATCH 09/24] resolve_ref_unsafe(): use for loop to count up to MAXDEPTH David Turner
2016-04-07 19:02 ` [PATCH 10/24] resolve_ref_unsafe(): ensure flags is always set David Turner
2016-04-07 19:02 ` [PATCH 11/24] resolve_ref_1(): eliminate local variable David Turner
2016-04-07 19:02 ` [PATCH 12/24] resolve_ref_1(): reorder code David Turner
2016-04-07 19:03 ` [PATCH 13/24] resolve_ref_1(): eliminate local variable "bad_name" David Turner
2016-04-07 19:03 ` [PATCH 14/24] files-backend: break out ref reading David Turner
2016-04-07 19:03 ` [PATCH 15/24] read_raw_ref(): manage own scratch space David Turner
2016-04-07 19:03 ` [PATCH 16/24] Inline resolve_ref_1() into resolve_ref_unsafe() David Turner
2016-04-07 19:03 ` [PATCH 17/24] read_raw_ref(): change flags parameter to unsigned int David Turner
2016-04-07 19:03 ` [PATCH 18/24] fsck_head_link(): remove unneeded flag variable David Turner
2016-04-07 19:03 ` [PATCH 19/24] cmd_merge(): " David Turner
2016-04-07 19:03 ` [PATCH 20/24] checkout_paths(): " David Turner
2016-04-07 19:03 ` [PATCH 21/24] check_aliased_update(): check that dst_name is non-NULL David Turner
2016-04-07 19:03 ` [PATCH 22/24] show_head_ref(): check the result of resolve_ref_namespace() David Turner
2016-04-07 19:03 ` [PATCH 23/24] refs: move resolve_ref_unsafe into common code David Turner
2016-04-07 19:03 ` [PATCH 24/24] refs: on symref reflog expire, lock symref not referrent David Turner
2016-04-07 22:29 ` [PATCH 00/24] Yet another pre-refs-backend series Junio C Hamano
2016-04-09 16:19 ` Michael Haggerty
2016-04-10 2:10 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
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