From: Jonathan Nieder Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 22:07:10 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 32/44] refs.c: remove the update_ref_write function Message-ID: <20140521220710.GG12314@google.com> In-Reply-To: <1400174999-26786-33-git-send-email-sahlberg@google.com> Ronnie Sahlberg wrote: > +++ b/refs.c [...] > @@ -3518,14 +3499,16 @@ int ref_transaction_commit(struct ref_transaction *transaction, > struct ref_update *update = updates[i]; > > if (!is_null_sha1(update->new_sha1)) { > - ret = update_ref_write(msg, > - update->refname, > - update->new_sha1, > - update->lock, err, > - UPDATE_REFS_QUIET_ON_ERR); > + ret = write_ref_sha1(update->lock, update->new_sha1, > + msg); This changes the return value on error from 1 to -1. That seems like a good change. It's probably worth mentioning in the commit message.