Patrick Steinhardt <ps@xxxxxx> writes: > Hi, > > this is a resend of version 1 of this patch series to hopefully entice > some reviews. The only change is that v2 is rebased onto the current > main branch at commit e83ba647f7 (The seventh batch, 2022-01-05). The > following was from the orignial cover letter: I'll add Ævar, who has been making a lot of changes to the refs subsystem, and Han-Wen, whose work to add a new ref backend may need to interact with this change, as possible stake-holders to the CC list. > As reported by Waleed in [1], the reference-transaction hook is being > executed when packing refs. Given that the hook ideally ought to track > logical updates to refs instead of leaking low-level implementation > details of how the files backend works, this is understandably leading > to some confusion. > > This patch series aims to fix that by improving how the tandom of loose > and packed refs backends interact such that we skip executing the hook > when the loose backend: > > - repacks references. > - needs to delete packed refs when deleting a loose ref would > uncover that packed ref. > > Patrick > > [1]: <CAKjfCeBcuYC3OXRVtxxDGWRGOxC38Fb7CNuSh_dMmxpGVip_9Q@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Patrick Steinhardt (6): > refs: open-code deletion of packed refs > refs: allow passing flags when beginning transactions > refs: allow skipping the reference-transaction hook > refs: demonstrate excessive execution of the reference-transaction > hook > refs: do not execute reference-transaction hook on packing refs > refs: skip hooks when deleting uncovered packed refs > > refs.c | 11 +++++-- > refs.h | 8 ++++- > refs/files-backend.c | 25 +++++++++++----- > refs/packed-backend.c | 30 ++++++++++++++----- > refs/packed-backend.h | 6 ++++ > refs/refs-internal.h | 1 + > sequencer.c | 2 +- > t/t1416-ref-transaction-hooks.sh | 50 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > 8 files changed, 113 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
