From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 09 May 2019 04:49:55 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/17] Documentation: describe split commit-graphs
Message-ID: <xmqq8svgfczw.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <87pnoshfkq.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com>

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:

> With commit-graph-<HASH> all these unlink() race conditions go away,
> partial reads due to concurrent graph writing becomes a non-issue (we'd
> just leave the old files, "gc" deals with them later..), no need to
> carefully fsync() files/dirs etc as we need to carefully juggle N and
> N+1 files.

The above would give a nice course correction to be in line with the
rest of the system, like how split index knows about and chains to
its base.  Thanks for a dose of sanity.