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From: "Gábor Szeder" <szeder@ira.uka.de>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, Ronnie Sahlberg <sahlberg@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] git-prompt: do not look for refs/stash in $GIT_DIR
Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2014 20:22:41 +0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1XLXkh-0002sL-IJ@iramx2.ira.uni-karlsruhe.de> (raw)

Hi,

On Aug 23, 2014 12:26 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> Since dd0b72c (bash prompt: use bash builtins to check stash 
> state, 2011-04-01), git-prompt checks whether we have a 
> stash by looking for $GIT_DIR/refs/stash. Generally external 
> programs should never do this, because they would miss 
> packed-refs.

Not sure whether the prompt script is external program or not, but doesn't matter, this is the right thing to do.

> That commit claims that packed-refs does not pack 
> refs/stash, but that is not quite true. It does pack the 
> ref, but due to a bug, fails to prune the ref. When we fix 
> that bug, we would want to be doing the right thing here. 
>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> 
> --- 
> I know we are pretty sensitive to forks in the prompt code (after all, 
> that was the point of dd0b72c). This patch is essentially a reversion of 
> this hunk of dd0b72c, and is definitely safe.

I'm not sure, but if I remember correctly (don't have the means to check it at the moment, sorry) in that commit I also added a 'git pack-ref' invocation to the relevant test(s?) to guard us against breakages due to changes in 'git pack-refs'.  If that is so, then I think those invocations should be removed as well, as they'll become useless.

Best,
Gábor

             reply	other threads:[~2014-08-24 13:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-24 13:22 Gábor Szeder [this message]
2014-08-25 12:46 ` [PATCH 1/5] git-prompt: do not look for refs/stash in $GIT_DIR Jeff King
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-08-23  5:23 [PATCH 0/5] fix pack-refs pruning of refs/foo Jeff King
2014-08-23  5:26 ` [PATCH 1/5] git-prompt: do not look for refs/stash in $GIT_DIR Jeff King

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