Re: [PATCH] git: add --no-optional-locks option

On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 06:10:12PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

On Thu, 21 Sep 2017, Jeff King wrote:

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Johannes, this is an adaptation of your 67e5ce7f63 (status: offer *not*
to lock the index and update it, 2016-08-12). Folks working on GitHub
Desktop complained to me that it's only available on Windows. :)

Okay, so this is trying to help me by upstreaming a patch from Git for
Windows?

If so: thanks!

Yes, in a round-about way. :)

The changes, in particular the different semantics, will guarantee that I
have to work on the consumer's side here, though, leaving me even less
time for the Git mailing list, so I will need a lot more help with
upstreaming patches.

I think you can get away with doing nothing for the time being. The two
patches can co-exist in the GfW codebase[1], and people using the
existing option can switch over at their leisure. Eventually you may
decide to revert 67e5ce7f63.

-Peff

[1] Modulo some trivial conflict resolution when the two are merged.