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Re: [PATCH v3] gc: reject if another gc is running, unless --force is given

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Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date
Aug 5, 2013, 18:37 UTC
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Junio C Hamano wrote:
> [...]
The other comments mostly make sense.
> After reading what the whole function does, I think the purpose of
> this function is to take gc-lock (with optionally force).  Perhaps a
> name along the lines of "lock_gc", "gc_lock", "lock_repo_for_gc",
> would be more appropriate.

The whole point of this exercise is to _not_ lock up the repo during gc, so I can do minimal commit/ worktree/ ref update operations when it's running. I can't expect the reflog to work, so complex history-rewriting operations should be avoided; that's about it, I think.

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  1. gc: reject if another gc is running, unless --force is givenNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Aug 3, 2013
  2. gc: reject if another gc is running, unless --force is givenNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Aug 3, 2013
  3. Ramkumar RamachandraAug 3, 2013
  4. Duy NguyenAug 3, 2013
  5. Johannes SixtAug 3, 2013
  6. Duy NguyenAug 3, 2013
  7. Johannes SixtAug 3, 2013
  8. gc: reject if another gc is running, unless --force is givenNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Aug 5, 2013
  9. Junio C HamanoAug 5, 2013
  10. Ramkumar RamachandraAug 5, 2013
  11. Junio C HamanoAug 6, 2013
  12. Ramkumar RamachandraAug 6, 2013
  13. gc: reject if another gc is running, unless --force is givenNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Aug 8, 2013
  14. Junio C HamanoAug 8, 2013
  15. Duy NguyenAug 9, 2013
  16. Junio C HamanoAug 9, 2013
  17. Andres PereraAug 9, 2013
  18. Junio C HamanoAug 9, 2013
  19. Duy NguyenAug 10, 2013
  20. Andreas SchwabAug 10, 2013

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