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