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From: Michael Gaber <Michael.Gaber@gmx•net>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation•org>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>,
	Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx•de>,
	Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg•org>,
	git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Add an option not to use link(src, dest) && unlink(src) when that is unreliable
Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 20:38:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49F3588A.4000707@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0904251039460.3101@localhost.localdomain>

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Linus Torvalds schrieb:
> 
> On Sat, 25 Apr 2009, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> @@ -2225,7 +2225,9 @@ int move_temp_to_file(const char *tmpfile, const char *filename)
>>  {
>>  	int ret = 0;
>>  
>> -	if (link(tmpfile, filename))
>> +	if (unreliable_hardlinks)
>> +		goto try_rename;
> 
> Much better.
> 
> 		Linus

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd02xx/EWD215.PDF

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-25 18:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-23 10:53 [PATCH] Add an option not to use link(src, dest) && unlink(src) when that is unreliable Johannes Schindelin
2009-04-23 19:16 ` Johannes Sixt
2009-04-23 19:33   ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-04-25  9:57   ` [PATCH v2] " Johannes Schindelin
2009-04-25 16:49     ` Junio C Hamano
2009-04-25 17:40       ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-25 18:38         ` Michael Gaber [this message]
2009-04-25 18:43           ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-27  3:37           ` Jay Soffian
2009-04-25 18:50       ` Johannes Sixt
2009-04-25 17:05     ` Junio C Hamano
2009-04-26 17:39       ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-04-25 17:39     ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-23 19:39 ` [PATCH] " Alex Riesen
2009-04-23 21:59   ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-04-24  5:44     ` Alex Riesen
2009-04-25 17:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-25 18:52   ` Johannes Sixt
2009-04-26  1:17     ` Junio C Hamano
2009-04-26 17:40       ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-04-27 12:00         ` [PATCH v3] " Johannes Schindelin
2009-04-27 15:15           ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-27 16:11             ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-04-27 16:53               ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-27 19:55             ` Junio C Hamano
2009-04-27 20:13               ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-27 20:18               ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-27 22:10                 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-04-27 22:28                   ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-04-27 23:06                     ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-27 22:32                 ` [PATCH] Rename core.unreliableHardlinks to core.createObject Johannes Schindelin
2009-04-27 23:48                   ` Junio C Hamano
2009-04-28  8:23                     ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-04-28  8:44                       ` Junio C Hamano
2009-04-28 14:50                         ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-04-28 20:59                           ` Junio C Hamano
2009-04-28 22:07                             ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-04-26 17:38   ` [PATCH] Add an option not to use link(src, dest) && unlink(src) when that is unreliable Johannes Schindelin

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