From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 07:37:27 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] make sure packs to be replaced are closed beforehand
Message-ID: <493F71B7.60804@viscovery.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0812091414030.14328@xanadu.home>

Nicolas Pitre schrieb:
> Especially on Windows where an opened file cannot be replaced, make
> sure pack-objects always close packs it is about to replace. Even on
> non Windows systems, this could save potential bad results if ever
> objects were to be read from the new pack file using offset from the old
> index.
> 
> This should fix t5303 on Windows.
...
> OK, here it is at last.  Please confirm it works on Windows before Junio 
> merges it.

I can confirm that this patch fixes t5303 on Windows (MinGW).

-- Hannes