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-rw-r--r--refs/files-backend.c8
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/refs/files-backend.c b/refs/files-backend.c
index 2c89e87d3e..b2de84fa69 100644
--- a/refs/files-backend.c
+++ b/refs/files-backend.c
@@ -3291,7 +3291,13 @@ static int files_transaction_finish(struct ref_store *ref_store,
* next update. If not, we try and create a regular symref.
*/
if (update->new_target && refs->prefer_symlink_refs)
- if (!create_ref_symlink(lock, update->new_target))
+ /*
+ * By using the `NOT_CONSTANT()` trick, we can avoid
+ * errors by `clang`'s `-Wunreachable` logic that would
+ * report that the `continue` statement is not reachable
+ * when `NO_SYMLINK_HEAD` is `#define`d.
+ */
+ if (NOT_CONSTANT(!create_ref_symlink(lock, update->new_target)))
continue;
if (update->flags & REF_NEEDS_COMMIT) {