Created 'struct ref_lock' to contain the data necessary to perform
a ref update. This change improves writing a ref as the file names
are generated only once (rather than twice) and supports following
symrefs (up to the maximum depth). Further the ref_lock structure
provides room to extend the update API with ref logging.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
"git branch" uses "rev-parse --all" and becomes much too slow when
there are many tags (it scans all refs). Use the new "--branches"
option of rev-parse to speed things up.
Signed-off-by: Sean Estabrooks <seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
"git_path()" returns a static pathname pointer into the git directory
using a printf-like format specifier.
"head_ref()" works like "for_each_ref()", except for just the HEAD.
This patch adds code to read a hash out of a specified file under
{GIT_DIR}/refs/, and to write such files atomically and optionally with an
compare and lock.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
