From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2018 22:46:45 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] checkout files in-place
Message-ID: <xmqqa7s1aqlm.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <87a7s1vw9a.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com>

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

> ...And this seems to conflict with what Junio's summarized in
> xmqqvaapb3r1.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com. I.e. (if I'm reading it
> correctly) it's not correct to say that we unlink the existing file,
> then replace it, don't we create a new one, and then rename it in-place?

No, my recollection was incorrect.  entry.c::checkout_entry() does
an unlink() then write_entry() to the final place without any
rename-to-finish phase.