The old code incremented the packed ref cache reference count when
acquiring the packed-refs lock, and decremented the count when
releasing the lock. This is unnecessary because:
* Another process cannot change the packed-refs file because it is
locked.
* When we ourselves change the packed-refs file, we do so by first
modifying the packed ref-cache, and then writing the data from the
ref-cache to disk. So the packed ref-cache remains fresh because any
changes that we plan to make to the file are made in the cache first
anyway.
So there is no reason for the cache to become stale.
Moreover, the extra reference count causes a problem if we
intentionally clear the packed refs cache, as we sometimes need to do
if we change the cache in anticipation of writing a change to disk,
but then the write to disk fails. In that case, `packed_refs_unlock()`
would have no easy way to find the cache whose reference count it
needs to decrement.
This whole issue will soon become moot due to upcoming changes that
avoid changing the in-memory cache as part of updating the packed-refs
on disk, but this change makes that transition easier.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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