Re: [PATCH] gc: run pre-detach operations under lock

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

... And I
really think it's not "a little more work". Even if we decided to keep
the same file and replace the PID in it with the daemonized one, I think
that still isn't quite right. Because we don't do so atomically unless
we take gc.pid.lock again.

Exactly.