As a follow-up to the preceding commit where we removed the adjacent "errno == EISDIR" condition in the same function, remove the "last_errno != ENOTDIR" condition here. It's not possible for us to hit this condition added in 5b2d8d6f218 (lock_ref_sha1_basic(): improve diagnostics for ref D/F conflicts, 2015-05-11). Since a1c1d8170db (refs_resolve_ref_unsafe: handle d/f conflicts for writes, 2017-10-06) we've explicitly caught these in refs_resolve_ref_unsafe() before returning NULL: if (errno != ENOENT && errno != EISDIR && errno != ENOTDIR) return NULL; We'd then always return the refname from refs_resolve_ref_unsafe() even if we were in a broken state as explained in the preceding commit. The elided context here is a call to refs_resolve_ref_unsafe(). Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> --- refs/files-backend.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/refs/files-backend.c b/refs/files-backend.c index 28cd8853f5..5d12003471 100644 --- a/refs/files-backend.c +++ b/refs/files-backend.c @@ -894,8 +894,7 @@ static struct ref_lock *lock_ref_oid_basic(struct files_ref_store *refs, RESOLVE_REF_NO_RECURSE, &lock->old_oid, type)) { last_errno = errno; - if (last_errno != ENOTDIR || - !refs_verify_refname_available(&refs->base, refname, + if (!refs_verify_refname_available(&refs->base, refname, NULL, NULL, err)) strbuf_addf(err, "unable to resolve reference '%s': %s", refname, strerror(last_errno)); -- 2.32.0.956.g6b0c84ceda8