Draft: Check repository cache after block yield
Why
Gitlab::RepositorySetCache#fetch can have a race condition which can result in stale reads due to slow block yields to fetch. See #506430 for full details
What
Check repository cache after block yield
Since competing concurrent processes could encounter an empty cache, they might both race to write on fetch. If the first process's block is slow, it could overwrite a subsequent cache resulting in stale data. This make sure that given multiple fetches only the first to finish writes to the cache.
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Related to #506430