Re: [PATCH v3 4/9] rebase -i: also expand/collapse the SHA-1s via the rebase--helper
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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- Apr 28, 2017, 00:15 UTC
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Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
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>> > + out = fopen(todo_file, "w"); >> >> The usual "open lockfile, write to it and then rename" dance is not >> necessary for the purpose of preventing other people from reading >> this file while we are writing to it. But if we fail inside this >> function before we fclose(3) "out", the user will lose the todo >> list. It probably is not a big deal, though. > > I guess you're right. It is bug-for-bug equivalent to the previous shell > function, though.
I think the scripted version uses the "write to $todo.new and mv $todo.new to $todo" pattern so you'd at least have something to go back to when the loopfails.