From: Junio C Hamano Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2026 00:09:11 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] odb/source-loose: fix failing existence checks caused by stale cache Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Kristofer Karlsson writes: > On Wed, 4 Nov 2026 at 13:17, Patrick Steinhardt wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> this small patch series fixes the bug reported in [1]. >> >> In summary, when git-merge(1) writes merged blobs it may be unable to >> read them back because the loose object cache does not get updated. >> Consequently, we may think that the blobs do not exist locally, and thus >> in a promisor remote we may perform a backfill fetch. But as the remote >> doesn't know those objects we'll fail. >> >> Thanks! >> >> Patrick > > The fix looks good to me, and I verified that the test fails > without it. My own local fix is logically equivalent, > which is a good sign, though perhaps that biased my review. Thanks, both.