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Re: Git v2.11.0 breaks max depth nested alternates

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Dec 5, 2016, 07:18 UTC
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<20161205071822.ndeswelgj5epej5k@sigill.intra.peff.net>
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On Sun, Dec 04, 2016 at 11:22:52AM -0000, Philip Oakley wrote:
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> > Ever since 722ff7f876 (receive-pack: quarantine objects until
> > pre-receive accepts, 2016-10-03, v2.11.0), Git has been quarantining
> > objects and packs received during an incoming push into a separate
> > objects directory and using the alternates mechanism to make them
> > available until they are either accepted and moved into the main
> > objects directory or rejected and discarded.
> 
> Is there a step here that after the accepted/rejected stage, it should then
> decrement the limit back to its original value. The problem description
> suggests that might be the case.

No. I thought that at first, too, but this increment happens in the sub-process which is using the extra level of alternates for its entire lifetime. So it "resets" it by exiting, and the parent process never increments its internal value at all.

-Peff
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  1. Kyle J. McKayDec 4, 2016
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  5. Philip OakleyDec 4, 2016
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