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authorGravatar Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2012-06-05 15:20:13 -0400
committerGravatar Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2012-06-05 15:20:13 -0400
commit40456953c27a39e68f663e3a0ad08e95bbaf2f1c (patch)
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parenta50d1b5853ee1210dee50881a1889808fe25b54a (diff)
another one
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@@ -75,6 +75,14 @@ Many races need to be dealt with by this code. Here are some of them.
Possible fix: Move content someplace before doing checksumming.
+* File is added and then replaced with another file before the annex add
+ stages the symlink in git.
+
+ Currently unfixed; `git add` will be run on the new file, which is
+ not at all good when it's big. Could be dealt with by using `git
+ update-index` to manually put the symlink into the index without git
+ looking at what's currently on disk.
+
* File is removed and then re-added before the removal event starts.
Not a problem; The removal event does nothing since the file exists,