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From: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Jan Smets <jan.smets@alcatel-lucent.com>, <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: repository corruption when pushing commits to a repository running 'git gc --prune='
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 22:08:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <vpq37xd8b7f.fsf@grenoble-inp.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqq7fmp8bcf.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Wed, 14 Oct 2015 13:05:36 -0700")

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> writes:
>
>> This looks like a race between deleting objects/05/ and creating
>> objects/05/cdb51bb0ea3e229734a4b1bddd5ec70fbc65ed.
>>
>> I don't understand how this is possible, since the temporary file and
>> the final one are in the same directory, so deleting the directory
>> should fail.
>>
>> What am I missing?
>
>  1. tmp_obj_* gets created in objects/05/ by "git unpack-objects";
>
>  2. prune_cruft() comes, notices tmp_obj_* that is sufficiently old,
>     decides to remove in "git prune".

Ah, OK, the real problem is the temporary file removal. Thanks.

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/

      reply	other threads:[~2015-10-14 20:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-14 13:44 repository corruption when pushing commits to a repository running 'git gc --prune=' Jan Smets
2015-10-14 14:38 ` Matthieu Moy
2015-10-14 17:37   ` Junio C Hamano
2015-10-14 18:40     ` Matthieu Moy
2015-10-14 20:48       ` Junio C Hamano
2015-10-14 21:09         ` Matthieu Moy
2015-10-14 21:39           ` Junio C Hamano
2015-10-14 18:46 ` Matthieu Moy
2015-10-14 20:05   ` Junio C Hamano
2015-10-14 20:08     ` Matthieu Moy [this message]

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