On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Chris Mason wrote:
>
> 5) right before exiting, write-tree updates the index if it made any changes.
This part won't work. It needs to do the proper locking, which means that
it needs to create "index.lock" _before_ it reads the index file, and
write everything to that one and then do a rename.
If it doesn't need to do the write, it can just remove index.lock without
writing to it, obviously.
> The downside to this setup is that I've got to change other index users to
> deal with directory entries that are there sometimes and missing other times.
>
> The nice part is that I don't have to "invalidate" the directory entry, if it
> is present, it is valid.
To me, the biggest downside is actually the complexity part, and worrying
about the directory index ever getting stale. How big do the changes end
up being?
Linus
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