Add an err argument to _begin so that on non-fatal failures in future ref backends we can report a nice error back to the caller. While _begin can currently never fail for other reasons than OOM, in which case we die() anyway, we may add other types of backends in the future. For example, a hypothetical MySQL backend could fail in _being with "Can not connect to MySQL server. No route to host". Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <sahlberg@xxxxxxxxxx> --- builtin/update-ref.c | 2 +- refs.c | 2 +- refs.h | 2 +- 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/builtin/update-ref.c b/builtin/update-ref.c index 7c9c248..c6ad0be 100644 --- a/builtin/update-ref.c +++ b/builtin/update-ref.c @@ -365,7 +365,7 @@ int cmd_update_ref(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) die("Refusing to perform update with empty message."); if (read_stdin) { - transaction = ref_transaction_begin(); + transaction = ref_transaction_begin(&err); if (delete || no_deref || argc > 0) usage_with_options(git_update_ref_usage, options); if (end_null) diff --git a/refs.c b/refs.c index d9b99c7..ee87eda 100644 --- a/refs.c +++ b/refs.c @@ -3387,7 +3387,7 @@ struct ref_transaction { size_t nr; }; -struct ref_transaction *ref_transaction_begin(void) +struct ref_transaction *ref_transaction_begin(struct strbuf *err) { return xcalloc(1, sizeof(struct ref_transaction)); } diff --git a/refs.h b/refs.h index 58ba365..743358f 100644 --- a/refs.h +++ b/refs.h @@ -257,7 +257,7 @@ enum action_on_err { * Begin a reference transaction. The reference transaction must * be freed by calling ref_transaction_free(). */ -struct ref_transaction *ref_transaction_begin(void); +struct ref_transaction *ref_transaction_begin(struct strbuf *err); /* * The following functions add a reference check or update to a -- 2.0.0.582.ge25c160 -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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