Jeff King authored Mar 14, 2014 and Junio C Hamano committed Mar 17, 2014

Before writing the shallow file, we stat() the existing file
to make sure it has not been updated since our operation
began. However, we do not do so under a lock, so there is a
possible race:

  1. Process A takes the lock.

  2. Process B calls check_shallow_file_for_update and finds
     no update.

  3. Process A commits the lockfile.

  4. Process B takes the lock, then overwrite's process A's
     changes.

We can fix this by doing our check while we hold the lock.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>