On Tue, May 24 2022, Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget wrote: > From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> > [...] > Let's drop that local variable and introduce a new flag in the slot that > is used to indicate that even while the slot is no longer in use, it is > still reserved until further notice. It is the responsibility of > `run_active_slot()` to clear that flag once it is done with that slot. > > Initial-patch-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> Don't you mean by me? I.e. https://lore.kernel.org/git/patch-1.1-1cec367e805-20220126T212921Z-avarab@xxxxxxxxx/ This seems to be derived from that, or perhaps you just came up with something similar independently. Junio then came up with the smaller https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqq8rv2nggn.fsf@gitster.g/