Michael Haggerty <mhagger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > This isn't documented very well. I thought I saw a comment somewhere in > the code that stated it explicitly, but I can't find it now. In any > case, my understanding of the locking protocol for reflogs is: > > The reflog for "$refname", which is stored at > "$GIT_DIR/logs/$refname", is locked by holding > "$GIT_DIR/refs/$refname.lock", *even if the corresponding > reference is packed*. > > This implies that readers, who don't pay attention to locks, have to be > prepared for the possibility that the reflog is in the middle of an > update and that the last line is incomplete. This is handled by > show_one_reflog_ent(), which discards incomplete lines. Interesting, as I think I saw Peff did something around that area recently. I have some more thought around the "transaction" in general, but it will be in a separate message. Thanks. -- 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