diff --git a/hbs2-git3/app/Main.hs b/hbs2-git3/app/Main.hs
index 9f89b089..126cd1b6 100644
--- a/hbs2-git3/app/Main.hs
+++ b/hbs2-git3/app/Main.hs
@@ -982,26 +982,6 @@ theDict = do
         exportEntries "reflog:"
 
 
-limitedResourceWorkerRequestQ :: MonadUnliftIO m
-                              => Int
-                              -> m r                  -- ^ create resource
-                              -> ( r -> m () )        -- ^ destroy resource
-                              -> m ( Async (), (r -> m b) -> m b )
-
-limitedResourceWorkerRequestQ n create destroy = do
-  inQ <- newTQueueIO
-  ass <- async $ flip runContT pure do
-    replicateM_  n do
-        (link <=< ContT . withAsync) $ flip runContT pure do
-          r <- ContT $ bracket create destroy
-          (fix . (>>)) $ atomically (readTQueue inQ) >>= \(a,reply) -> do
-            lift (tryAny (a r)) >>= reply
-
-  pure $ (ass, \fn -> do
-    tmv <- newEmptyTMVarIO
-    atomically $ writeTQueue inQ (fn, atomically . STM.putTMVar tmv)
-    atomically (readTMVar tmv) >>= either throwIO pure)
-
 linearSearchLBS hash lbs = do
 
   found <- S.toList_ $ runConsumeLBS lbs $ flip fix 0 \go n -> do
diff --git a/hbs2-git3/lib/HBS2/Git3/State/Index.hs b/hbs2-git3/lib/HBS2/Git3/State/Index.hs
index 14bb0271..fad6fe69 100644
--- a/hbs2-git3/lib/HBS2/Git3/State/Index.hs
+++ b/hbs2-git3/lib/HBS2/Git3/State/Index.hs
@@ -30,19 +30,13 @@ import Data.HashSet qualified as HS
 import Data.Word
 
 import Data.Config.Suckless
+import Data.Config.Suckless.Script.File
 
-import Codec.Compression.Zstd.Streaming as ZStdS
-import Codec.Serialise
 import Streaming.Prelude qualified as S
-import Streaming hiding (run,chunksOf)
 import System.TimeIt
-import Lens.Micro.Platform
 
-import UnliftIO
 import UnliftIO.IO.File qualified as UIO
 
-import Data.HashPSQ qualified as HPSQ
-
 
 readLogFileLBS :: forall opts m . ( MonadIO m, ReadLogOpts opts, BytesReader m )
                => opts
@@ -370,3 +364,17 @@ updateReflogIndex = do
                       <+> pretty gh
                       <+> pretty nm
 
+
+        entries <- liftIO $ S.toList_ $ glob ["**/*.ref"] [] idxPath $ \fn -> do
+                     ls <- liftIO (LBS8.readFile fn) <&> LBS8.lines
+                     S.each ls
+                     rm fn
+                     pure True
+
+        let es = HS.fromList entries
+
+        liftIO do
+          name <- emptyTempFile idxPath ".ref"
+          UIO.withBinaryFileAtomic name WriteMode $ \wh -> do
+            for_ es $ \s -> LBS8.hPutStrLn wh s
+