Am 28.01.25 um 08:17 schrieb Patrick Steinhardt: > On Tue, Jan 28, 2025 at 07:52:48AM +0100, Johannes Sixt wrote: >> The interactive question is only useful when the user has control over >> an uncooperative process that keeps a file open for an extended time and >> can find that processes, which is either obvious or extremely difficult. >> As I said, I haven't seen the question since a long, long time now, but >> I am also the first to admit that my way of using Git is rather narrow. > > That would be a much wider change compared to what I'm proposing though. > I don't quite feel comfortable with pushing for such a change as I don't > have enough of a stake in Windows to be able to judge whether it would > be sensible or not. > > If Dscho confirms your take I'm happy to do so. But otherwise I'd prefer > to continue with the more limited scope, as I know that the behaviour is > unexpected and unnecessary in the reftable library. I can live with the narrow workaround that you proposed. A more thorough rewrite like I propose would have to cook for quite some time before it can be released to the general public. -- Hannes
