From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org, Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fetch --prune: exit with error if pruning fails
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2022 13:34:56 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.2201281333410.347@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lez0p1db.fsf@coati.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me>
Hi Thomas,
On Fri, 28 Jan 2022, Thomas Gummerer wrote:
> Junio C Hamano writes:
>
> > Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com> writes:
> >
> >> +test_expect_success REFFILES 'fetch --prune fails to delete branches' '
> >> + cd "$D" &&
> >> + git clone . prune-fail &&
> >> + cd prune-fail &&
> >> + git update-ref refs/remotes/origin/extrabranch main &&
> >> + >.git/packed-refs.new &&
> >> + test_must_fail git fetch --prune origin
> >
> > Is it because the lockfile ".new" on packed-refs prevents deletion
> > of refs but does not block creation and updates to existing refs
> > that it is an effective test for the "--prune" issue? If we somehow
> > "locked" the whole ref updates, then the fetch would fail even
> > without "--prune", so it may be "effective", but smells like knowing
> > too much implementation detail. Yuck, but I do not offhand think of
> > any better way (it is easier to think of worse ways), so without
> > further input, I would say that this is the best (or "least bad") we
> > can do.
>
> Yes, that's correct. New refs will be created as loose refs, so they
> don't care about packed-refs. However deletions can potentially be
> happening in packed-refs, and that's why it fails when 'packed-refs.new'
> exists.
>
> I don't love the test either, but I also can't think of a better way to
> do this.
Maybe add a code comment about it? Something like:
[...]
: this will prevent --prune from locking packed-refs &&
>.git/packed-refs.new &&
[...]
Ciao,
Dscho
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-01-28 12:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-01-27 15:37 [PATCH] fetch --prune: exit with error if pruning fails Thomas Gummerer
2022-01-27 19:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-01-28 10:13 ` Johannes Schindelin
2022-01-28 10:55 ` Thomas Gummerer
2022-01-28 12:36 ` Johannes Schindelin
2022-01-28 18:14 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-01-28 11:04 ` Thomas Gummerer
2022-01-28 12:34 ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]
2022-01-31 13:07 ` Thomas Gummerer
2022-01-31 13:30 ` [PATCH v2] " Thomas Gummerer
2022-01-31 19:20 ` Junio C Hamano
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