From: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2020 08:51:28 GMT
Subject: Re: Creation of a branch named that has a directory prefix equal to the name of another branch fail.
Message-ID: <CAFQ2z_O7D_9ToECfMhh3mbRproktM+gTR_-byajatH3+7-ziLg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20200724200042.GC4013174@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 10:00 PM Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> [1] I didn't actually check what the current reftable patches do, but
>     that's my recollection from discussions long ago.

struct reftable_write_options has a skip_name_check setting. If set,
it doesn't check for directory/file conflicts. If unset, any attempt
to create such conflicts will API_ERROR from the transaction commit
function.

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