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2015-02-17commit: avoid race when creating orphan commitsLibravatar Michael Haggerty1-1/+1
If HEAD doesn't point at anything during the initial check, then we should make sure that it *still* doesn't point at anything when we are ready to update the reference. Otherwise, another process might commit while we are working (e.g., while we are waiting for the user to edit the commit message) and we will silently overwrite it. This fixes a failing test in t7516. Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Reviewed-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-02-17commit: add tests of commit racesLibravatar Michael Haggerty1-0/+30
Committing involves the following steps: 1. Determine the current value of HEAD (if any). 2. Create the new commit object. 3. Update HEAD. Please note that step 2 can take arbitrarily long, because it might involve the user editing a commit message. If a second process sneaks in a commit during step 2, then the first commit process should fail. This is usually done correctly, because step 3 verifies that HEAD still points at the same commit that it pointed to during step 1. However, if there is a race when creating an *orphan* commit, then the test in step 3 is skipped. Add tests for proper handling of such races. One of the new tests fails. It will be fixed in a moment. Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>