From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 09:25:02 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] git-fetch - repack in the background after fetching
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0606251122260.29667@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0606242049500.3747@g5.osdl.org>

Hi,

On Sat, 24 Jun 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> However, the more worrisome thing about background repacking is that while 
> it should be safe against normal users, if you have two _repacks_ at the 
> same time, they can decide to remove each others packs. Yeah, yeah, that's 
> pretty damn unlikely, but hey, "pretty damn unlikely" is not "impossible".

Why not introduce a lock file for repack?

Ciao,
Dscho