On Fri, Apr 03, 2020 at 10:33:58AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > I found the talk of "non-transactional" sessions a bit confusing > > because the normal --stdin does update all the refs it is given as a > > single transaction, so that if it cannot update one ref none of them > > are updated. If I've understood correctly these changes are about > > coordinating transactions across several repositories. I'm not sure > > how best to convey that in the man page - perhaps we could call them > > single repository transactions and multi repository transaction or > > something. > > FWIW, I described the topic in my "What's cooking" report as adding > an ingredient to implement two-phase commit-style atomic updates > across multiple repositories. Fair enough. It definitely may serve as a building block for cross-repo transactions, which also is the original intent of this patch series. I'm not sure whether it makes sense to document it as such, as I can imagine usecases acting on a single repository that still want to be in the business of doing two-phase commits. Patrick
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