Hi Gábor, On Fri, 15 Jan 2016, SZEDER Gábor wrote: > Quoting Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx>: > > >SZEDER Gábor <szeder@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > > >Quoting Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx>: > > > > > > >Actually, we do not even _need_ a sharedness for this ephemeral > > > >file. The additional "adjust-shared-perm" is merely a workaround > > > >for the fact the next person cannot write into it when it is left > > > >behind, and because we do not want to remove it when we are done. > > > > > >Do we really want to keep such a file after we are done? > > > >There is no strong reason we should want to remove them, either. > > > >As long as the lazy garbage collection works, there is no incentive > >to change things. > > I'm not sure what you mean by "lazy garbage collection"; I suppose not > that I sometimes delete a stale COMMIT_EDITMSG or two by hand... You do not delete a stale COMMIT_EDITMSG *by hand*, but essentially it is deleted the next time you commit. Ciao, Dscho