On 10/12/2019 6:59 PM, Elijah Newren wrote: > On Mon, Oct 7, 2019 at 1:08 PM Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget > <gitgitgad...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> From: Derrick Stolee <dsto...@microsoft.com> >> >> If two 'git sparse-checkout set' subcommands are launched at the >> same time, the behavior can be unexpected as they compete to write >> the sparse-checkout file and update the working directory. >> >> Take a lockfile around the writes to the sparse-checkout file. In >> addition, acquire this lock around the working directory update >> to avoid two commands updating the working directory in different >> ways. > > Wow, there's something I never would have thought to check. Did you > have folks run into this, or is this just some defensive programming? > Either way, I'm impressed.
This is defensive programming thanks to Kevin Willford's careful review [1]. -Stolee [1] https://github.com/microsoft/git/pull/204#discussion_r330252848
