It's unnecessary to pass a strbuf holding the reflog path up and down the call stack now that it is hardly needed by the callers. Remove the places where log_ref_write_1() uses it, in preparation for making it internal to log_ref_setup(). Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- refs/files-backend.c | 12 ++++++++---- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/refs/files-backend.c b/refs/files-backend.c index 7f26cf8..5a96424 100644 --- a/refs/files-backend.c +++ b/refs/files-backend.c @@ -2837,14 +2837,18 @@ static int log_ref_write_1(const char *refname, const unsigned char *old_sha1, result = log_ref_write_fd(logfd, old_sha1, new_sha1, git_committer_info(0), msg); if (result) { - strbuf_addf(err, "unable to append to '%s': %s", logfile->buf, - strerror(errno)); + int save_errno = errno; + + strbuf_addf(err, "unable to append to '%s': %s", + git_path("logs/%s", refname), strerror(save_errno)); close(logfd); return -1; } if (close(logfd)) { - strbuf_addf(err, "unable to append to '%s': %s", logfile->buf, - strerror(errno)); + int save_errno = errno; + + strbuf_addf(err, "unable to append to '%s': %s", + git_path("logs/%s", refname), strerror(save_errno)); return -1; } return 0; -- 2.9.3