On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 02:04:05AM -0400, Jeff King wrote:

On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 01:39:32AM -0400, Jeff King wrote:

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I wouldn't be opposed to that, in the sense that it's supposed to be a
black box to the caller, and it's relatively small in size. But I think
we're pretty close to having something usable without that, so I'd like
to pursue a smaller fix in the interim.

So here's what I came up with. Most of the changes are done as
preparatory steps, so I believe the final commit should just work out of
the box for you, as well as on Windows CI (which I just kicked off).

The Windows CI did indeed complete successfully, though I'm not too
surprised, since it never hit the blocking/deadlock case in the first
place. I _think_ from our conversation that it should work for you, too,
but please let me know. Fingers crossed. :)

-Peff