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Re: [PATCH jk/prune-mtime] prune: close directory earlier during loose-object directory traversal

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Dec 11, 2015, 19:37 UTC
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
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> On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 07:43:01PM +0200, Johannes Sixt wrote:
>
>> 27e1e22d (prune: factor out loose-object directory traversal, 2014-10-16)
>> introduced a new function for_each_loose_file_in_objdir() with a helper
>> for_each_file_in_obj_subdir(). The latter calls callbacks for each file
>> found during a directory traversal and finally also a callback for the
>> directory itself.
>> 
>> git-prune uses the function to clean up the object directory. In
>> particular, in the directory callback it calls rmdir(). On Windows XP,
>> this rmdir call fails, because the directory is still open while the
>> callback is called. Close the directory before calling the callback.
>
> Makes sense, and the patch looks good to me. Sorry for breaking things
> on Windows.
>
> Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>

Sorry for reviving this old thread, but I noticed that we do not have this patch in our tree yet. I'll queue to 'pu' for now lest I forget. If I missed a good argument or concensus against the change please let me know, otherwise I'll fast track the change to 2.7 final

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  1. prune: close directory earlier during loose-object directory traversalJohannes Sixt, Aug 12, 2015
  2. Jeff KingAug 12, 2015
  3. Junio C HamanoDec 11, 2015
  4. Jeff KingDec 11, 2015
  5. Johannes SchindelinDec 13, 2015
  6. Junio C HamanoDec 14, 2015
  7. Johannes SchindelinAug 13, 2015

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