Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Git's reference updates are traditionally all or nothing - when > updating multiple references in a transaction, either all updates > succeed or none do. I am quite confused. In the beginning (traditionally), there was no transaction to speak of. You try to update two refs at the same time, we did best effort but that was never atomic. Later we introduced transactions to optionally make the changes all-or-none. So, if you want "I have these N updates, but I do not care if some of them have to fail---just make your best effort to update as many of them as you can", why are you still doing a transaction? Perhaps it is merely the phrasing that makes this proposal confusing. If presented as "non-transactional batched updates", perhaps it may have been more palatable. I dunno, but "partial transaction" does not quite sound like a transaction, at least to me.
