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Tue, 5 Aug 2025 13:08:47 -0400 (EDT) From: Junio C Hamano To: Jeff King Cc: Patrick Steinhardt , git@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (Aug 2025, #01; Sun, 3) In-Reply-To: <20250805125120.GA1291837@coredump.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Tue, 5 Aug 2025 08:51:20 -0400") References: <20250804154129.GC109984@coredump.intra.peff.net> <20250805125120.GA1291837@coredump.intra.peff.net> Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2025 10:08:46 -0700 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Jeff King writes: > I think I don't think it's pretending that nothing bad happened, though. > The user did not ask us to update HEAD, and we are able to fill their > original request completely. So there really was nothing bad that > happened. > > To me the options are "try to do the best thing in a racy situation, > even though it almost never happens and will be complex and somewhat > untested" vs "do the simple and stupid thing that does not happen enough > for anyone to care too much". OK. I still prefer the latter ;-) Thanks.