From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 15 May 2014 16:53:22 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 11/42] tag.c: use ref transactions when doing updates
Message-ID: <20140515165322.GB27279@google.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAL=YDWk8uZzJyex0YoBx81KhJZjS99qW1nV2AOe=rZhgoYRAcg@mail.gmail.com>

Ronnie Sahlberg wrote:

> Instead of the suggestions above, would you accept an alternative
> approach where I would
> add an err argument to ref_transaction_begin() instead?
>
> For a hypothetical mysql backend, this could then do something like :
[...]
> fatal: refs/heads/master: cannot update the ref: failed to connect to mysql database ...

Yes, sounds like a good thing to do.

Thanks,
Jonathan