From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 17:15:22 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 16/19] branch.c: use ref transaction for all ref updates
Message-ID: <xmqqr44gkqfp.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <535F725B.5000102@alum.mit.edu>

Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> writes:

> I have no compunctions about using update() to create or delete a
> reference.  My point of view is that update() is the general case, and
> create() and delete() are special-cases that exist only for the
> convenience of callers.  For example, our future pluggable backends
> might only have to implement update(), and the other two functions could
> delegate to it at the abstract layer.

Sounds like a sensible position.

Thanks for commenting, Michael, and thanks for working on this,
Ronnie.