On Sat, Nov 11, 2023 at 09:27:42AM +0900, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Elijah Newren <newren@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > I believe the above is built on an assumption that any objects written > > will not need to be read until after the merge is completed. And we > > might have a nesting issue too... > > ... > > This is unsafe; the object may need to be read later within the same > > merge. > > Thanks for a good analysis. I agree. Ditto. I responded to Elijah more in-depth elsewhere in the thread, but I think for your purposes it is OK to discard this series. Thanks, Taylor