Use index.lock and move writes to head and refs to the end of the run to make interrupted fastfetch operations less bad

microsoft / VFSForGit

Virtual File System for Git: Enable Git at Enterprise Scale

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Use index.lock and move writes to head and refs to the end of the run to make interrupted fastfetch operations less bad #1763

Closed SteveBenz closed 2 years ago

SteveBenz commented 2 years ago

As mentioned in the comments, FastFetch is pretty far away from the ideal way of handling .git/index and .git/index.lock. I had a go at fixing that, but after getting a ways into it, I decided that the value just wasn't really there and the risk was pretty high. So I hacked around the problem.