verify_lock() is a helper function called while committing reference transactions. But when it fails, instead of recording its error message in a strbuf to be passed back to the caller of ref_transaction_commit(), the error message was being written directly to stderr. Instead, report the errors via a strbuf so that they make it back to the caller of ref_transaction_commit(). The last two patches remove the capitalization of some error messages, to be consistent with our usual practice. These are a slight backwards incompatibility; if any scripts are trying to grep for these error message strings, they might have to be adjusted. So feel free to drop them if you think consistency across time is more important than consistency across commands. This is the patch series that I mentioned here [1]. It applies on top of mh/ref-directory-file [2] and is thematically a continuation of that series in the sense that it further cleans up the error handling within reference transactions. It would be easy to rebase to master if that is preferred. These patches are also available on my GitHub account [3] as branch "verify-lock-strbuf-err". [1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/269006 [2] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/268778 [3] https://github.com/mhagger/git Michael Haggerty (5): verify_lock(): return 0/-1 rather than struct ref_lock * verify_lock(): on errors, let the caller unlock the lock verify_lock(): report errors via a strbuf verify_lock(): do not capitalize error messages ref_transaction_commit(): do not capitalize error messages refs.c | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------- t/t1400-update-ref.sh | 14 +++++++------- 2 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-) -- 2.1.4 -- 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