Re:

["Martin Ågren" <martin.agren@gmail.com>]

Hi Martin

On Fri, 15 Nov 2019 at 17:17, Martin Nicolay <martin@wsmn.osm-gmbh.de> wrote:

> While working with complex scripts invoking git multiple times my
> editor detects the changes and calls "git status". This leads to
> aborts in "git-stash". With this patch and an appropriate value
> core.fileslocktimeout this problem goes away.

Are you able to patch your editor to call
  git --no-optional-locks status
instead? See the bottom of git-status(1) ("BACKGROUND REFRESH") for more
on this.

> +long get_files_lock_timeout_ms(void)
> +{
> +       static int configured = 0;
> +
> +       /* The default timeout is 100 ms: */
> +       static int timeout_ms = 100;
> +
> +       if (!configured) {
> +               git_config_get_int("core.fileslocktimeout", &timeout_ms);
> +               configured = 1;
> +       }
> +
> +       return timeout_ms;
> +}
> +

> @@ -172,7 +174,7 @@ static inline int hold_lock_file_for_update(
>                 struct lock_file *lk, const char *path,
>                 int flags)
>  {
> -       return hold_lock_file_for_update_timeout(lk, path, flags, 0);
> +       return hold_lock_file_for_update_timeout(lk, path, flags, get_files_lock_timeout_ms() );
>  }

This looks like it changes the default from 0 ("try exactly once") to
100ms. Maybe we should stick with 0 for those who don't jump onto this
new config knob?

Martin