Re: [PATCH] git-repack: create new packs inside $PACKDIR, not cwd

Martin Waitz [off-list ref] writes:

hoi :)

On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 05:42:32PM +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote:

quoted

Avoid failing when cwd is !writable by writing the
packfiles directly in the $PACKDIR.

what if other GIT commands are being called while you repack?
Wouldn't they try to use the new packs, even while they are not
completely written?

Given that a new pack is created first by writing out .pack and
then .idx, and that the using side ignores .pack without
corresponding .idx, we are talking about very small window, but
you are right.

Writing into $cwd was certainly a carelessness; we tend to use
$GIT_DIR/ for this kind of thing.



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