Re: [PATCH v4] Allow update hooks to update refs on their own.

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Dec 4, 2007, 01:55 UTC
Message-ID: <20071204015511.GX14735@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vmyssqrhk.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes:
> 
> > This probably requires exporting the name of the ref we currently
> > have locked in an environment variable (and teach lockfile.c it)
> > so we can effectively do recursive locking.  That way the update
> > hook can still use git-update-ref to change the ref safely.
> 
> Heh, I like that, although I suspect getting this right would mean the
> topic should be post 1.5.4 (which I do not mind).

Yea, most likely.

Also I won't have any time in the near future to work on this implementation myself. I threw the idea out there in case someone else can find the time. I'm willing to do the work myself as I think its the right approach to use here for this update hook change, but I just don't see myself getting to it anytime before say Christmas...

Its slightly more involved then what Steven originally proposed, but I think it solves the problem better and gives us more room for future improvements where we may want/need something such as a recursive ref locking.

-- 
Shawn.