Re: [QUESTION] Tracking HEAD changes?

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Feb 25, 2021, 07:13 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqim6gwrf8.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <YDdDUILUUXA1ytva@ncase>

Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> writes:

> So what you're observing is simply mirroring "reality": the order in
> which git does its things here. There can be arbitrarily many
> transactions in a given git command, and the only way this can be
> changed is by changing how the command operating the transcations works.

In other words, ref transaction is only about changes to the refs. There is no such "transaction" that treats a series of operations like object creation and index manipulation that may happen before a group of refs are updated as a single unit and make it atomic.