These patches address http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/269050/focus=269415 linked from the git blame page, avoiding adding duplicates to info/alternates and removing hold_lock_file_for_append which is too heavyweight for logging and too limited for anything else. There's an argument to be made that since a-t-a-f is only used by clone, it shouldn't even bother taking a lock -- but then it should be moved to builtin/clone.c and reduced to a single write of the pre-deduped list, followed by a single read_info_alternates call. One thing at a time. Taking out the locking in the incremental version here doesn't really simplify the code much anyway. -- 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