Re: Git v2.11.0 breaks max depth nested alternates

> On Sun, Dec 04, 2016 at 11:22:52AM -0000, Philip Oakley wrote:
>
>> > 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.
>