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[PATCH 0/2] don't add duplicate paths to info/alternates

From
Jim Hill <gjthill@gmail.com>
Date
May 31, 2015, 18:15 UTC
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These patches address http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/269050/focus=269415 linked from the git blame page, avoiding adding duplicates to info/alternates and removing hold_lock_file_for_append which is too heavyweight for logging and too limited for anything else.

There's an argument to be made that since a-t-a-f is only used by clone, it shouldn't even bother taking a lock -- but then it should be moved to builtin/clone.c and reduced to a single write of the pre-deduped list, followed by a single read_info_alternates call. One thing at a time. Taking out the locking in the incremental version here doesn't really simplify the code much anyway.

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  1. 0/2 don't add duplicate paths to info/alternatesJim Hill, May 31, 2015
  2. 1/2 add_to_alternates_file: don't add duplicate pathsJim Hill, May 31, 2015
  3. Jeff KingJun 1, 2015
  4. 2/2 remove hold_lock_file_for_appendJim Hill, May 31, 2015
  5. Jeff KingJun 1, 2015

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