As some Apple employees continue to advocate: Using dot notation for anything else than
documented (!) synthesized properties and calling non-behavioural messages can be dangerous.
Methods that look like setters/getters but aren't connected to a documented property may
introduce private state change inside the class which can further bring all sorts of subtle
and hard to debug problems. The Objective-C 2.0 Language Guide now also mentions this.
We used to increase this variable after
handing it over to the [handle readToEndOfFileInBackgroundAndNotify],
but sometimes a task would quit before getting to that point, causing
a premature index refresh event to be called.
These are mostly copies from PBGitIndexController, and
they can be refactored to a common method. I'm not sure of a name
for that yet, so I'll keep it like this for now :)