Junio C Hamano <junkio@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Junio C Hamano <junkio@xxxxxxx> writes: > > > Looking at output from: > > > > $ git grep -A 3 hold_lock_file_for_update > > > > I wonder if it might be more consistent to do something like > > this instead. It removes more lines than it adds ;-). > > > > Most of the callers except the one in refs.c use the function to > > update the index file. Among the index writers, everybody > > except write-tree dies if they cannot open it for writing. > > > > diff --git a/refs.c b/refs.c > > index 28a9394..564f8a7 100644 > > --- a/refs.c > > +++ b/refs.c > > @@ -319,7 +319,7 @@ static struct ref_lock *lock_ref_sha1_ba > > > > if (safe_create_leading_directories(lock->ref_file)) > > die("unable to create directory for %s", lock->ref_file); > > - lock->lock_fd = hold_lock_file_for_update(lock->lk, lock->ref_file); > > + lock->lock_fd = hold_lock_file_for_update(lock->lk, lock->ref_file, 0); > > if (lock->lock_fd < 0) { > > error("Couldn't open lock file %s: %s", > > lock->lk->filename, strerror(errno)); > > Looking at this part further, it seems that this one could > simply die when it fails -- after all it dies when leading > directories cannot be created, so dying upon failure of > hold_lock_file_for_update() would be consistent ;-). Agreed. -- Shawn. - : 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