From: Junio C Hamano Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2024 16:56:20 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] update_symref: add REF_CREATE_ONLY option Message-ID: In-Reply-To: "Bence Ferdinandy" writes: > On Sat Sep 21, 2024 at 15:40, Phillip Wood wrote: >> On 19/09/2024 13:13, Bence Ferdinandy wrote: >> > Add a new REF_CREATE_ONLY flag for use by the files backend which will >> > only update the symref if it doesn't already exist. Add the possibility >> > to pass extra flags to refs_update_symref so that it can utilize this >> > new flag. >> >> I'm not sure we need a new flag to do this as it is already supported by >> the ref transaction api. > > Thanks, I was not aware of ref_transaction_create. It also seems to return with > TRANSACTION_NAME_CONFLICT so we should be able to see from the error code if > indeed the existence was the problem or something else went wrong. Thank you for working on this, and thanks, Phillip, for a useful suggestion.