Re: Git v2.11.0 breaks max depth nested alternates

On Sun, Dec 04, 2016 at 11:22:52AM -0000, Philip Oakley wrote:

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Ever since 722ff7f876 (receive-pack: quarantine objects until
pre-receive accepts, 2016-10-03, v2.11.0), Git has been quarantining
objects and packs received during an incoming push into a separate
objects directory and using the alternates mechanism to make them
available until they are either accepted and moved into the main
objects directory or rejected and discarded.

Is there a step here that after the accepted/rejected stage, it should then
decrement the limit back to its original value. The problem description
suggests that might be the case.

No. I thought that at first, too, but this increment happens in the
sub-process which is using the extra level of alternates for its entire
lifetime. So it "resets" it by exiting, and the parent process never
increments its internal value at all.

-Peff