Re: [PATCH v2] object-file: reprepare alternates when necessary

[Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>]

On Wed, Mar 08, 2023 at 11:35:06AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> "Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > From: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
> >
> > When an object is not found in a repository's object store, we sometimes
> > call reprepare_packed_git() to see if the object was temporarily moved
> > into a new pack-file (and its old pack-file or loose object was
> > deleted). This process does a scan of each pack directory within each
> > odb, but does not reevaluate if the odb list needs updating.
>
> Very well explained, except I do not know what is meant by
> "temporarily", which to me implies what was moved is moved back
> later.  Without "temporarily", it reads perfectly well.  While I do
> not think of a good word to use to tell the readers that the moving
> is done by somebody else while we are trying to find the object, if
> there were one, that would replace "temporarily" very well.
>
> But other than that tiny nit that does not have to be addressed at
> all, everything in this patch looks good.

s/temporarily/concurrently?

I think that concurrently conveys that another process was doing the
moving. But I agree that it doesn't matter here to aid in the overall
understanding of what's happening in this patch.

So I'd be fine with this patch as-is, with s/temporarily/concurrently,
or with s/temporarily//.

Thanks,
Taylor