[[!comment format=mdwn username="http://joeyh.name/" ip="209.250.56.55" subject="more confirmation of race theory" date="2014-07-09T19:26:55Z" content=""" @purpleidea showed me his git log, and as I had expected, there were previous empty commits immediately before the 2 commits that removes all of his files (which happened independenctly on 2 different machines running the assistant). This is consistent with my suspicion it's a race. Note that the assistant's git ref watcher can easily run multiple merges concurrently if multiple refs change. """]]