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diff --git a/doc/design/assistant/inotify.mdwn b/doc/design/assistant/inotify.mdwn index 3a836a04c..3b3e5dc56 100644 --- a/doc/design/assistant/inotify.mdwn +++ b/doc/design/assistant/inotify.mdwn @@ -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, |