If a transaction includes a non-NODEREF update to a symbolic reference,
we don't have to look it up in lock_ref_for_update(). The reference will
be dereferenced anyway when the split-off update is processed.
This change requires that we store a backpointer from the split-off
update to its parent update, for two reasons:
* We still want to report the original reference name in error messages.
So if an error occurs when checking the split-off update's old_sha1,
walk the parent_update pointers back to find the original reference
name, and report that one.
* We still need to write the old_sha1 of the symref to its reflog. So
after we read the split-off update's reference value, walk the
parent_update pointers back and fill in their old_sha1 fields.
Aside from eliminating unnecessary reads, this change fixes a
subtle (though not very serious) race condition: in the old code, the
old_sha1 of the symref was resolved before the reference that it pointed
at was locked. So it was possible that the old_sha1 value logged to the
symref's reflog could be wrong if another process changed the downstream
reference before it was locked.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Before committing ref updates, split symbolic ref updates into two
parts: an update to the underlying ref, and a log-only update to the
symbolic ref. This ensures that both references are locked correctly
during the transaction, including while their reflogs are updated.
Similarly, if the reference pointed to by HEAD is modified directly, add
a separate log-only update to HEAD, rather than leaving the job of
updating HEAD's reflog to commit_ref_update(). This change ensures that
HEAD is locked correctly while its reflog is being modified, as well as
being cheaper (HEAD only needs to be resolved once).
This makes use of a new function, lock_raw_ref(), which is analogous to
read_raw_ref(), but acquires a lock on the reference before reading it.
This change still has two problems:
* There are redundant read_ref_full() reference lookups.
* It is still possible to get incorrect reflogs for symbolic references
if there is a concurrent update by another process, since the old_oid
of a symref is determined before the lock on the pointed-to ref is
held.
Both problems will soon be fixed.
Signed-off-by: David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
WIP
Change add_update() to initialize all of the fields in the new
ref_update object. Rename the function to ref_transaction_add_update(),
and increase its visibility to all of the refs-related code.
All of this makes the function more useful for other future callers.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
The refs infrastructure learns about log-only ref updates, which only
update the reflog. Later, we will use this to separate symbolic
reference resolution from ref updating.
Signed-off-by: David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
It is nonsensical (and a little bit dangerous) to use REF_ISPRUNING
without REF_NODEREF. Forbid it explicitly. Change the one REF_ISPRUNING
caller to pass REF_NODEREF too.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
This will hopefully reduce confusion with the "flags" arguments that are
used in many functions in this module as an input parameter to choose
how the function should operate.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Now that resolve_ref_unsafe's only interaction with the backend is
through read_raw_ref, we can move it into the common code. Later,
we'll replace read_raw_ref with a backend function.
Signed-off-by: David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Make do_for_each_ref take a submodule as an argument instead of a
ref_cache. Since all for_each_*ref* functions are defined in terms of
do_for_each_ref, we can then move them into the common code.
Later, we can simply make do_for_each_ref into a backend function.
Signed-off-by: David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Create new function find_descendant_ref, to hold one of the ref
conflict checks used in verify_refname_available. Multiple backends
will need this function, so move it to the common code.
Also move rename_ref_available to the common code, because alternate
backends might need it and it has no files-backend-specific code.
Signed-off-by: David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Because HEAD and stash are per-worktree, every refs backend needs to
go through the files backend to write these refs.
So create a new function, files_log_ref_write, and add it to
refs/refs-internal.h. Later, we will use this to handle reflog updates
for per-worktree symbolic refs (HEAD).
Signed-off-by: David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
There are a number of constants, structs, and static functions defined
in refs.c and treated as private to the references module. But we want
to support multiple reference backends within the reference module,
and those backends will need access to some heretofore private
declarations.
We don't want those declarations to be visible to non-refs code, so we
don't want to move them to refs.h. Instead, add a new header file,
refs/refs-internal.h, that is intended to be included only from within
the refs module. Make some functions non-static and move some
declarations (and their corresponding docstrings) from refs.c to this
file.
In a moment we will add more content to the "refs" subdirectory.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
