Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] prevent opening packs too early

On Wed, Sep 08 2021, Taylor Blau wrote:

Here is a very small reroll of a couple of patches to make sure that packs are
not read before all of their auxiliary files exist and are moved into place, by
renaming the .idx file into place last.

New since the original version is a patch to apply similar treatment to
index-pack, as noticed by Peff in [1]. This should be queued before Ævar's
series on top.

I read Junio's earlier <xmqq8s063m7m.fsf@gitster.g>[1] as a suggestion
that we combine the two into a singe series. I do think that yields a
better end-result, in particular your 1/3 is much more readable if the
refactoring in my 2/4.

I'm mot of the way done with such a rewrite, which also incorporates
your suggestion for how to manage memory in rename_tmp_packfile(), but
I'll hold of on what you & Junio have to say about next steps before
adding to the re-roll competition Junio mentioned...

1. https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqq8s063m7m.fsf@gitster.g (local)