On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 8:53 PM, Duy Nguyen <pclo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Good point. I think that is because gc does not check if gc is already
> running. Adding such a check should not be too hard. I think gc could
> save its pid in $GIT_DIR/auto-gc.pid. The next auto-gc checks this, if
> the pid is valid, skip auto-gc.

Defining "valid" is a tricky business, though, as pid can and will
wrap around, and the directory could be shared on multiple machines. A
pid written by a process on one machine has no relation to any pid on
another machine.
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