Re: Race condition in git-bundle(1) create when ref is updated while running

> Toon Claes <toon@iotcl.com> writes:
> 
> > I discovered a bug in git-bundle(1) create. There is a race condition
> > happening when a ref gets updated while the bundle creation process is
> > running.
> 
> "--all" that tells "traverse from the tip of all the refs" to any
> rev-list family of commands (like log and bundle) eventually boils
> down to opendir("refs/...") followed by readdir(), and if somebody
> creates or deletes files while you are reading in such a loop,
> readdir() may appear to skip an entry, which is understandable.
> Even "git for-each-ref" would race with a ref update (which involves
> removing a file and then creating another file at the same path), I
> would think.  IOW, I do not think this is limited to "git bundle".