On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 08:48:11AM -0800, Shawn Pearce wrote: > On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 08:30, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Â Â Right now you are getting contention on the lock itself. But may > > Â Â you not also run afoul of step (6) above? That is, one push updates > > Â Â the ref from A to B, then the other one in attempting to go from A > > Â Â to B sees that it has already changed to B under our feet and > > Â Â complains? > > Not if its a force push. :-) IIRC, there are no wire protocol bits to denote a forced push, the force option only overrides client-side checks. Thus, even forced pushes can fail due to race conditions... -Ilari -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html