From: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 08:52:30 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] "-x" tracing option for tests
Message-ID: <543CE44E.5050009@alum.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20141013210729.GA15969@peff.net>

On 10/13/2014 11:07 PM, Jeff King wrote:
> 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). :)

FWIW I think we are on path (1).

Michael

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Michael Haggerty
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