From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sun, 04 Oct 2015 14:53:30 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC 1/2] sha1_file: close all pack files after running
Message-ID: <21bd1c9c394a421bc06c6fa1837f16b6@dscho.org>
In-Reply-To: <20151002192148.GD26154@wheezy.local>

Hi Max,

On 2015-10-02 21:21, Max Kirillov wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 02, 2015 at 12:13:40PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>> On 2015-10-02 12:05, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>>
>> > On 2015-10-01 05:29, Max Kirillov wrote:
>>>> When a builtin has done its job, but waits for pager or not waited
>>>> by its caller and still hanging it keeps pack files opened.
>>>> This can cause a number of issues, for example on Windows git gc
>>>> cannot remove the packs.
>>
>> Could you do me another favor? It seems that you want to
>> work on this, so I will step back (I have to take off for
>> the weekend very soon anyway, so I am really glad that you
>> take care of it). But I would really love to see the line
> 
> As I explained in other message, your case is a bit
> different.

I guess then we would need two different patches for the two different fixes, at least.

So now I am unsure how to proceed: I do not want to step on your toes, but I also want to see my use case fixed and I want to move forward on this. At the moment, it looks as if we are at an impasse.

Ciao,
Johannes