From: Junio C Hamano Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2011 22:21:03 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] index-pack: Create .keep files with same permissions and .pack/.idx Message-ID: <7vk4fdehps.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Shawn Pearce writes: > On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 17:39, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> While I am not sure if letting a clone proceed while there is a concurrent >> push is even a good idea to begin with, > > What? Why? > > Are you suggesting that Git hosting sites disable readers while there > is a push occurring? This is an irrelevant comment isn't it? Hosting sites coming via git protocol will not suffer from this "in-progress .keep not readable" issue at all. I was responding to the motivation stated in the commit log message, the file-based "cp -r" copy or cpio clone, which are _not_ a safe thing to do. Because "leftover .keep" alone is a good justification, I was hinting to drop that other motivation from the description altogether.