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Diffstat (limited to 'refs.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | refs.c | 41 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 32 deletions
@@ -1839,13 +1839,10 @@ done: static int is_special_ref(const char *refname) { /* - * Special references get written and read directly via the filesystem - * by the subsystems that create them. Thus, they must not go through - * the reference backend but must instead be read directly. It is - * arguable whether this behaviour is sensible, or whether it's simply - * a leaky abstraction enabled by us only having a single reference - * backend implementation. But at least for a subset of references it - * indeed does make sense to treat them specially: + * Special references are refs that have different semantics compared + * to "normal" refs. These refs can thus not be stored in the ref + * backend, but must always be accessed via the filesystem. The + * following refs are special: * * - FETCH_HEAD may contain multiple object IDs, and each one of them * carries additional metadata like where it came from. @@ -1853,30 +1850,12 @@ static int is_special_ref(const char *refname) * - MERGE_HEAD may contain multiple object IDs when merging multiple * heads. * - * There are some exceptions that you might expect to see on this list - * but which are handled exclusively via the reference backend: - * - * - BISECT_EXPECTED_REV - * - * - CHERRY_PICK_HEAD - * - * - HEAD - * - * - ORIG_HEAD - * - * - "rebase-apply/" and "rebase-merge/" contain all of the state for - * rebases, including some reference-like files. These are - * exclusively read and written via the filesystem and never go - * through the refdb. - * - * Writing or deleting references must consistently go either through - * the filesystem (special refs) or through the reference backend - * (normal ones). + * Reading, writing or deleting references must consistently go either + * through the filesystem (special refs) or through the reference + * backend (normal ones). */ static const char * const special_refs[] = { - "AUTO_MERGE", "FETCH_HEAD", - "MERGE_AUTOSTASH", "MERGE_HEAD", }; size_t i; @@ -1997,11 +1976,9 @@ const char *refs_resolve_ref_unsafe(struct ref_store *refs, } /* backend functions */ -int refs_init_db(struct strbuf *err) +int refs_init_db(struct ref_store *refs, int flags, struct strbuf *err) { - struct ref_store *refs = get_main_ref_store(the_repository); - - return refs->be->init_db(refs, err); + return refs->be->init_db(refs, flags, err); } const char *resolve_ref_unsafe(const char *refname, int resolve_flags, |