From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: Greg Price <price@ksplice.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pack-refs: remove newly empty directories
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2010 20:49:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2y6doqwch.fsf@igel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1278368848-7037-1-git-send-email-price@ksplice.com> (Greg Price's message of "Mon, 5 Jul 2010 18:27:28 -0400")
Greg Price <price@ksplice.com> writes:
> In a large repository which uses directories to organize many refs,
> "git pack-refs --all --prune" does not improve performance so much
> as it should, unless we remove all the now-empty directories as well.
What happens if a parallel running git wants to update a ref in one of
the now-empty directories? Can it get a spurious error after it has
called safe_create_leading_directories?
Andreas.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-06 18:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-05 22:27 [PATCH] pack-refs: remove newly empty directories Greg Price
2010-07-06 3:02 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-07-06 3:25 ` Greg Price
2010-07-06 23:29 ` [PATCH v2] " Greg Price
2010-07-06 6:10 ` [PATCH] " Johannes Sixt
2010-07-06 6:15 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-07-06 18:49 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2010-07-06 19:13 ` Greg Price
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