Re: What's cooking in git.git (Aug 2025, #01; Sun, 3)

> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> 
> > I just left a rather lengthy review of the split-HEAD patch in v4. I
> > think hit has a few bugs that we need to address.
> >
> > I'm not sure if the right answer is to just go back to the v3 version
> > that simply rejected the racy HEAD update (since that's more or less
> > what happens now and nobody complains).
> >
> > If we do want to stick with the "silently skip the racy HEAD update"
> > strategy from v4, I left some fixes there. But I'd worry more about
> > maintainability and regressions in the future. I'm not sure if my hacky
> > "pretend the HEAD is this for splitting" patch is something we'd want to
> > carry or not. But if so, I think we could at least get a little coverage
> > in the test suite.
> 
> Between the "honestry admit we failed and reject" and "silently
> pretend nothing bad happened", I'd have to say that the former may
> be more preferrable, and I hope people would agree.