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Re: fetching packs and storing them as packs

From
Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date
Oct 28, 2006, 03:42 UTC
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<20061028034206.GA14044@spearce.org>
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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:
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> Can we perhaps have reader-writer lock on the filesystem to
> pretect the repository?  "prune" can also be made into a writer
> for that lock and "fetch-pack --keep" would be a reader for the
> lock.  That reader-writer lock would solve the issue rather
> nicely.
> 
> > That said, I think some of the "git repack -d" logic is also unnecessarily 
> > fragile.
> 
> Noted; will fix.

So a reader-writer lock is preferred over a non-locking solution such as I posted in http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/30288 ?

Not to mention that such a solution would also fix the -d issue Linus points out above.

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Message 5 of 51 in “fetching packs and storing them as packs”
  1. Nicolas PitreOct 26, 2006
  2. Eran TromerOct 26, 2006
  3. Linus TorvaldsOct 27, 2006
  4. Junio C HamanoOct 27, 2006
  5. Shawn PearceOct 28, 2006
  6. Junio C HamanoOct 28, 2006
  7. Linus TorvaldsOct 28, 2006
  8. Junio C HamanoOct 28, 2006
  9. Shawn PearceOct 28, 2006
  10. Shawn PearceOct 28, 2006
  11. Junio C HamanoOct 28, 2006
  12. Shawn PearceOct 29, 2006
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  14. Shawn PearceOct 29, 2006
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  16. Shawn PearceOct 29, 2006
  17. Linus TorvaldsOct 28, 2006
  18. Junio C HamanoOct 28, 2006
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  20. Shawn PearceOct 29, 2006
  21. Jakub NarebskiOct 29, 2006
  22. Shawn PearceOct 29, 2006
  23. send-pack --keep: do not explode into loose objects on the receiving end.Junio C Hamano, Oct 29, 2006
  24. Shawn PearceOct 29, 2006
  25. Junio C HamanoOct 29, 2006
  26. Nicolas PitreOct 30, 2006
  27. Eran TromerOct 26, 2006
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  29. Shawn PearceOct 27, 2006
  30. SeanOct 27, 2006
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