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authorShawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>2006-05-19 03:29:05 -0400
committerJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>2006-05-19 15:02:43 -0700
commit732232a123e1e61e38babb1c572722bb8a189ba3 (patch)
tree55a57e1e2c532d3724b32b81e40aa1c818b80458 /refs.c
parentc22a7f0fb96d5c742581422452d3d68139b79ad6 (diff)
downloadgit-732232a123e1e61e38babb1c572722bb8a189ba3.tar.gz
Force writing ref if it doesn't exist.
Normally we try to skip writing a ref if its value hasn't changed but in the special case that the ref doesn't exist but the new value is going to be 0{40} then force writing the ref anyway. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'refs.c')
-rw-r--r--refs.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/refs.c b/refs.c
index 9d37a028c3..31cf27668d 100644
--- a/refs.c
+++ b/refs.c
@@ -288,6 +288,7 @@ static struct ref_lock* lock_ref_sha1_basic(const char *path,
const unsigned char *old_sha1, int mustexist)
{
struct ref_lock *lock;
+ struct stat st;
lock = xcalloc(1, sizeof(struct ref_lock));
lock->lock_fd = -1;
@@ -303,6 +304,7 @@ static struct ref_lock* lock_ref_sha1_basic(const char *path,
lock->ref_file = strdup(path);
lock->lock_file = strdup(mkpath("%s.lock", lock->ref_file));
lock->log_file = strdup(git_path("logs/%s", lock->ref_file + plen));
+ lock->force_write = !lstat(lock->ref_file, &st) || errno == ENOENT;
if (safe_create_leading_directories(lock->lock_file))
die("unable to create directory for %s", lock->lock_file);
@@ -405,7 +407,7 @@ int write_ref_sha1(struct ref_lock *lock,
if (!lock)
return -1;
- if (!memcmp(lock->old_sha1, sha1, 20)) {
+ if (!lock->force_write && !memcmp(lock->old_sha1, sha1, 20)) {
unlock_ref(lock);
return 0;
}