Stefan Beller <sbeller@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > In ref_transaction_commit > * commit the .lock file to its destination > * in case this is a deletion: > * remove the loose ref > * and repack the packed refs file if necessary Don't you need to repack and then remove the loose one, though? Otherwise you would expose a stale packed ref in the middle to the other readers, no? > The larger transactions would be handled differently by relying > on the packed refs file: > In ref_transaction_update: > * detect if we transition to a large transaction > (by having more than one entry in transaction->updates) > if so: > * Pack all currently existing refs into the packed > refs file, commit the packed refs file and delete > all loose refs. This will avoid (d/f) conflicts. > > * Keep the packed-refs file locked and move the first > transaction update into the packed-refs.lock file > > * Any update(delete, create, update) is put into the locked > packed refs file. I am not sure if you mean (a) keep updates only in-core, to be flushed at the commit time, or (b) each and every update in the large transaction results in rewriting the entire packed-refs.lock file, only to be renamed to the final name at the commit time. I am hoping it would be the former. > * Additionally we need to obtain the .lock for the loose refs > file to keep guarantees, though we should close the file > descriptor as we don't wand to run out of file descriptors. Yes, this last point is important. -- 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