Re: What's cooking in git.git (Jun 2016, #05; Thu, 16)

> On 17 Jun 2016, at 05:20, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> 
> ...
> 
> * mh/split-under-lock (2016-05-13) 33 commits
>  (merged to 'next' on 2016-06-03 at 2e71330)
> + lock_ref_sha1_basic(): only handle REF_NODEREF mode
> + commit_ref_update(): remove the flags parameter
> + lock_ref_for_update(): don't resolve symrefs
> + lock_ref_for_update(): don't re-read non-symbolic references
> + refs: resolve symbolic refs first
> + ref_transaction_update(): check refname_is_safe() at a minimum
> + unlock_ref(): move definition higher in the file
> + lock_ref_for_update(): new function
> + add_update(): initialize the whole ref_update
> + verify_refname_available(): adjust constness in declaration
> + refs: don't dereference on rename
> + refs: allow log-only updates
> + delete_branches(): use resolve_refdup()
> + ref_transaction_commit(): correctly report close_ref() failure
> + ref_transaction_create(): disallow recursive pruning
> + refs: make error messages more consistent
> + lock_ref_sha1_basic(): remove unneeded local variable
> + read_raw_ref(): move docstring to header file
> + read_raw_ref(): improve docstring
> + read_raw_ref(): rename symref argument to referent
> + read_raw_ref(): clear *type at start of function
> + read_raw_ref(): rename flags argument to type
> + ref_transaction_commit(): remove local variable n
> + rename_ref(): remove unneeded local variable
> + commit_ref_update(): write error message to *err, not stderr
> + refname_is_safe(): insist that the refname already be normalized
> + refname_is_safe(): don't allow the empty string
> + refname_is_safe(): use skip_prefix()
> + remove_dir_recursively(): add docstring
> + safe_create_leading_directories(): improve docstring
> + read_raw_ref(): don't get confused by an empty directory
> + commit_ref(): if there is an empty dir in the way, delete it
> + t1404: demonstrate a bug resolving references
> (this branch is used by mh/ref-iterators, mh/ref-store and mh/update-ref-errors.)
> 
> Further preparatory work on the refs API before the pluggable
> backend series can land.
> 
> Will merge to 'master'.