[PATCH 1/2] object-file: warn on failed unlink

From: Justin Tobler <jltobler@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 3, 2026, 21:24 UTC
Message-ID: <20261103212410.1389988-2-jltobler@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20261103212410.1389988-1-jltobler@gmail.com>

When the "files" ODB transaction cleans up a temporary packfile or ".keep" lockfile on an error path, any failure to unlink the file is silently ignored. A ".keep" file left behind this way prevents its packfile from ever being removed by housekeeping.

Use `unlink_or_warn()` instead so that such failures are reported.

Signed-off-by: Justin Tobler <jltobler@gmail.com>
---
 object-file.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/object-file.c b/object-file.c
index 132aaab6f8..a9800143bd 100644
--- a/object-file.c
+++ b/object-file.c
@@ -823,7 +823,7 @@ static void flush_packfile_transaction(struct odb_transaction_files *transaction
 	if (state->nr_written == 0) {
 		close(state->f->fd);
 		free_hashfile(state->f);
-		unlink(state->pack_tmp_name);
+		unlink_or_warn(state->pack_tmp_name);
 		goto clear_exit;
 	} else if (state->nr_written == 1) {
 		finalize_hashfile(state->f, hash, FSYNC_COMPONENT_PACK,
@@ -1276,13 +1276,13 @@ static int write_pack_lockfile(struct odb_source *source, const char *pack_name,
 	if (write_in_full(fd, contents.buf, contents.len) < 0) {
 		ret = error_errno(_("unable to write '%s'"), lock_path.buf);
 		close(fd);
-		unlink(lock_path.buf);
+		unlink_or_warn(lock_path.buf);
 		goto out;
 	}
 
 	if (close(fd) < 0) {
 		ret = error_errno(_("unable to close '%s'"), lock_path.buf);
-		unlink(lock_path.buf);
+		unlink_or_warn(lock_path.buf);
 		goto out;
 	}

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