tree 22bf83a1c272d5c460062ef9ecf0cd00c25336c3
parent 966e671106b2fd38301e7c344c754fd118d0bb07
author Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com> 1614099443 +0000
committer Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> 1614103281 -0800

doc/reftable: document how to handle windows

On Windows we can't delete or overwrite files opened by other processes. Here we
sketch how to handle this situation.

We propose to use a random element in the filename. It's possible to design an
alternate solution based on counters, but that would assign semantics to the
filenames that complicates implementation.

Signed-off-by: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>