From: Michael Haggerty Date: Tue, 06 May 2014 20:53:08 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Use ref transactions for fetch Message-ID: <53694BB4.2030904@alum.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: On 05/06/2014 08:40 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Michael Haggerty writes: > >> It would be pretty annoying to spend a lot of time fetching a big pack, >> only to have the fetch fail because one reference out of many couldn't >> be updated. This would force the user to download the entire pack >> again,... > > Is that really true? Doesn't quickfetch optimization kick in for > the second fetch? Yes, I guess it would. I wasn't aware of that optimization. Thanks for the pointer. I withdraw my objection to using atomic reference updates for fetch. Michael -- Michael Haggerty mhagger@alum.mit.edu http://softwareswirl.blogspot.com/