Re: [PATCH 0/2] pack-write,repack: prevent opening packs too early

> On Wed, Sep 01, 2021 at 12:59:23AM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
> > So anyway. I think we definitely want the index-pack.c change. We
> > _could_ stop there and change the read side as a separate series, but I
> > think that until we do, the ordering changes on the write side aren't
> > really doing that much. They're shrinking the race a little, I guess,
> > but it's still very much there.
> 
> Yeah, now that I've had a chance to look at it it seems pretty
> straightforward. Probably limited to checks in prepare_pack(), and
> add_pack_to_midx(), which are the lone two callbacks of
> for_each_file_in_pack_dir().