Re: [PATCH v8 27/44] walker.c: use ref transaction for ref updates

On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 5:46 PM, Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com wrote: Ronnie Sahlberg wrote: This changes the locking slightly for walker_fetch. Previously the code would lock all refs before writing them but now we do not lock the refs until the commit stage. There is thus a very short

Re: [PATCH v8 27/44] walker.c: use ref transaction for ref updates

Ronnie Sahlberg wrote: This changes the locking slightly for walker_fetch. Previously the code would lock all refs before writing them but now we do not lock the refs until the commit stage. There is thus a very short window where changes could be done locally during the fetch which would be