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From: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Yaron Wittenstein <yaron.wittenstein@gmail.com>,
	Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [QUESTION] Tracking HEAD changes?
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2021 08:28:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YDdRgwwuvZBGuSVP@ncase> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqim6gwrf8.fsf@gitster.g>

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On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 11:13:47PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 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.

Exactly. Thanks for putting it into better words than I did.

Patrick

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-02-25  7:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-22  9:12 [QUESTION] Tracking HEAD changes? Yaron Wittenstein
2021-02-23  0:38 ` Jeff King
2021-02-23 20:42   ` Jeff King
2021-02-24 20:21     ` Yaron Wittenstein
2021-02-24 21:03       ` Jeff King
2021-02-25  5:36         ` Patrick Steinhardt
2021-02-25  6:01           ` Yaron Wittenstein
2021-02-25  6:27             ` Patrick Steinhardt
2021-02-25  7:13               ` Junio C Hamano
2021-02-25  7:28                 ` Patrick Steinhardt [this message]
2021-02-25  7:50                   ` Yaron Wittenstein
2021-02-26  5:59           ` Jeff King
2021-02-26 20:58             ` Yaron Wittenstein
2021-03-01  9:03               ` Jeff King
2021-03-01 10:02                 ` Yaron Wittenstein

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