From: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2023 01:34:02 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 5/5] builtin/merge-tree.c: implement support for `--write-pack`
Message-ID: <ZU7aClZCAtzkt55w@nand.local>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqmsvlrv5t.fsf@gitster.g>

On Sat, Nov 11, 2023 at 09:27:42AM +0900, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I believe the above is built on an assumption that any objects written
> > will not need to be read until after the merge is completed.  And we
> > might have a nesting issue too...
> > ...
> > This is unsafe; the object may need to be read later within the same
> > merge.
>
> Thanks for a good analysis.  I agree.

Ditto. I responded to Elijah more in-depth elsewhere in the thread, but
I think for your purposes it is OK to discard this series.

Thanks,
Taylor