From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2010 18:49:34 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pack-refs: remove newly empty directories
Message-ID: <m2y6doqwch.fsf@igel.home>
In-Reply-To: <1278368848-7037-1-git-send-email-price@ksplice.com>

Greg Price <price@ksplice.com> writes:

> In a large repository which uses directories to organize many refs,
> "git pack-refs --all --prune" does not improve performance so much
> as it should, unless we remove all the now-empty directories as well.

What happens if a parallel running git wants to update a ref in one of
the now-empty directories?  Can it get a spurious error after it has
called safe_create_leading_directories?

Andreas.

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