From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2012 15:44:39 GMT
Subject: Re: [GSoC] Designing a faster index format
Message-ID: <CACsJy8AkFiiaKnqqyLEZfa+DJsRyKd6dGEN71c3q=6j3fo8jww@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <878vi8sx1x.fsf@thomas.inf.ethz.ch>

On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 10:24 PM, Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> wrote:
> But even so: do we make any promises that (say) git-add is atomic in the
> sense that a reader always gets the before-update results or the
> after-update results?  Non-builtins (e.g. git add -p) may make small
> incremental updates to the index, so they wouldn't be atomic anyway.

Take git-checkout. I'm ok with it writing to worktree all old entries,
or all new ones, but please not a mix.
-- 
Duy