My earlier attempt at forcing a write for non-existant refs worked; it forced a write for pretty much all refs. This corrects the condition to only force a write for refs which don't exist yet. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- refs.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) 5ee16115982c52fa9b8fa15c14b234608a8b935d diff --git a/refs.c b/refs.c index d3ddc82..eeb1196 100644 --- a/refs.c +++ b/refs.c @@ -305,7 +305,7 @@ static struct ref_lock* lock_ref_sha1_ba lock->ref_file = strdup(path); lock->lock_file = strdup(mkpath("%s.lock", lock->ref_file)); lock->log_file = strdup(git_path("logs/%s", lock->ref_file + plen)); - lock->force_write = !lstat(lock->ref_file, &st) || errno == ENOENT; + lock->force_write = lstat(lock->ref_file, &st) && errno == ENOENT; if (safe_create_leading_directories(lock->lock_file)) die("unable to create directory for %s", lock->lock_file); -- 1.3.2.g7278 - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html