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@ -32,3 +32,14 @@ place. It gets 3 appended to it. So the worktree file ends up containing
`1,3`.
So, perhaps there is really no good solution to this. --[[Joey]]
> I suppose the balance of probabilities is that a worktree file being
> overwritten in the current race window is fairly plausibly likely,
> while a file being repeatedly appended to in that way is very unlikely.
>
> But the balance of ill effects is that in the current case you lose data
> in a way that is easy to understand (and that git is also subject to),
> and in the repeated append case, a file gets into a state it never ought
> to possibly be in.
>
> So I think it makes sense to abandon this idea. [[done]] --[[Joey]]