On 6/3/2025 10:01 AM, Patrick Steinhardt wrote: > Hi, > > this patch series fixes races around locking the "packed-refs" file when > auto-maintenance decides to repack it. This issue has been reported e.g. > via [1] and [2]. > > The root cause is that git-gc(1) used to know to detach _after_ having > repacked references. As such, callers wouldn't continue with their thing > until we have already packed refs, and thus the race does not exist > there. git-maintenance(1) didn't have the same split though, so this > patch series retrofits that logic. Thanks for making these changes. I read this v4 and only found an opportunity to improve our docs relative to the more helpful errors around using --schedule and --task together. I sent a diff that could be squashed in or skipped. Thanks, -Stolee
