On Wed, 7 Nov 2018 13:18:19 -0800, Doug Anderson <diand...@chromium.org> wrote: > From reading the thread it sounds like Guenter was not even super > happy with that based on the principal that you wouldn't expect a > kernel build to be doing write operations in your .git directory even > if $objtree == $srctree
I see, thanks. > In theory you could wrap it. If passing git with > "--no-optional-locks" doesn't work you could fall back to the old > code? That would mean only people with newer git would get your new > feature and everyone else would stick with the pre-existing behavior. > > It does seem like any things like this should be done atop Guenter's > revert. AKA: revert first to get things working the way that they > were and then start talking about how to make it better. Okay, it's trading one regression for another, but I guess it's clear that yours is much more painful. Sorry to have held up progress here. I'll back out of the discussion until this is reverted.
