Re: [PATCH 0/3] "-x" tracing option for tests

> On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 11:24:42AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> [...]
>> Is your plan to reroll the prune-mtime stuff on top of these?  The
>> additional safety those patches would give us is valuable and they
>> are pretty straight-forward---I was hoping to have them in the 2.2
>> release.
> 
> Yes, I've delayed while thinking about the issues that Michael raised.
> There are basically two paths I see:
> 
>   1. These do not solve all problems/races, but are a solid base and
>      sensible path forward for further changes which we can worry about
>      later.
> 
>   2. There is a better way to provide prune safety, and these patches
>      will get in the way of doing that.
> 
> I wanted to make sure we are on path (1) and not path (2). :)