From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 05:25:43 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] Allow update hooks to update refs on their own.
Message-ID: <7vmyssqrhk.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20071203040108.GS14735@spearce.org>

"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).