On Fri, Jan 7, 2022 at 11:17 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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. Thanks for the consideration, Jun. As the hook is called from refs.c, it should not make a difference for reftable. I looked over the patches. I didn't look at the bottom change to packed/loose refs as I'm not an expert. The individual transaction updates already support their own flags, so this change generates some confusion. Consider: int refs_delete_ref(struct ref_store *refs, const char *msg, const char *refname, const struct object_id *old_oid, unsigned int flags) how would one delete a ref skipping the transaction hook? It will be easy for someone to pass the SKIP_TRANSACTION_HOOK to refs_delete_ref(), with surprising results. It might make sense to not introduce a new flag namespace, but use update->flags instead. You'd have to add your new flag after REF_SKIP_REFNAME_VERIFICATION. Bonus is that you can unittest the new flag using the existing ref-store helper without extra work. (check that a transaction with & without the flag works as expected.) other than that, looks OK to me. -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - Google Munich I work 80%. Don't expect answers from me on Fridays. -- Google Germany GmbH, Erika-Mann-Strasse 33, 80636 Munich Registergericht und -nummer: Hamburg, HRB 86891 Sitz der Gesellschaft: Hamburg Geschäftsführer: Paul Manicle, Halimah DeLaine Prado