On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 04:10:12AM -0500, Jeff King wrote: > I also notice that check_shallow_file_for_update returns early if > !is_shallow. Is that safe? Is it possible for another process to have > made us shallow since the program began? In that case, we would have to > stat() the file always, then complain if it exists and !is_shallow. That patch would look like this: diff --git a/shallow.c b/shallow.c index 75da07a..e05a241 100644 --- a/shallow.c +++ b/shallow.c @@ -139,13 +139,13 @@ void check_shallow_file_for_update(void) { struct stat st; - if (!is_shallow) - return; - else if (is_shallow == -1) + if (is_shallow == -1) die("BUG: shallow must be initialized by now"); if (stat(git_path("shallow"), &st)) die("shallow file was removed during fetch"); + else if (!is_shallow) + die("shallow file appeared during fetch"); else if (st.st_mtime != shallow_stat.st_mtime #ifdef USE_NSEC || ST_MTIME_NSEC(st) != ST_MTIME_NSEC(shallow_stat) but again, I'm not really clear on whether this is possible. -Peff -- 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