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authorGravatar Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2012-06-06 14:29:10 -0400
committerGravatar Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2012-06-06 14:29:10 -0400
commitb819f644ad00c5ad13ba5b249d3e127fd59d8694 (patch)
tree6882fedee5af6ee4406ef68b9ec1ec50822f64e9 /doc/install
parent91db54076964979b6c50bd7efd0b895c4d416978 (diff)
close the git add race
There's a race adding a new file to the annex: The file is moved to the annex and replaced with a symlink, and then we git add the symlink. If someone comes along in the meantime and replaces the symlink with something else, such as a new large file, we add that instead. Which could be bad.. This race is fixed by avoiding using git add, instead the symlink is directly staged into the index. It would be nice to make `git annex add` use this same technique. I have not done so yet because it currently runs git update-index once per file, which would slow does `git annex add`. A future enhancement would be to extend the Git.Queue to include the ability to run update-index with a list of Streamers.
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