On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 5:49 PM Martin Fick <mfick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > If you're actually doing the correct locking and packed-refs read (which > > "real" implementations like libgit2 do) then no, I don't think that's > > dangerous. And I think libgit2 properly complains when it sees a > > repositoryformatversion above 0. I don't know offhand about JGit, or any > > of the lesser-used ones like dulwich or go-git. > > Today, some of these sound like shortcuts that are very likely taken quite a > bit by cleanup and other maintenance scripts (not necessarily formal git > tools), and the impact of these shortcuts is likely low with the current > model. However, I suspect these tools/scripts could be seriously disruptive if > we leave the refs dir around when using reftable, Maybe we can leave the refs dir, but have no heads/ directory inside, and make the whole thing read-only? -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - Google Munich I work 80%. Don't expect answers from me on Fridays. -- Google Germany GmbH, Erika-Mann-Strasse 33, 80636 Munich Registergericht und -nummer: Hamburg, HRB 86891 Sitz der Gesellschaft: Hamburg Geschäftsführer: Paul Manicle, Halimah DeLaine Prado
