Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

On Wed, Mar 05, 2025 at 06:39:01PM +0100, Karthik Nayak wrote:

quoted

@@ -1456,6 +1471,13 @@ static enum ref_transaction_error write_with_updates(struct packed_ref_store *re
 					    update->refname,
 					    oid_to_hex(&update->old_oid));
 				return REF_TRANSACTION_ERROR_NONEXISTENT_REF;
+
+				if (ref_transaction_maybe_set_rejected(transaction, i, ret)) {
+					strbuf_setlen(err, 0);
+					ret = 0;
+					continue;
+				}
+
 				goto error;
 			}
 		}

This new code isn't reachable, since we return in the lines shown in the
diff context.

Should it have been "ret = REF_TRANSACTION_ERROR"... in the first place?
I think the "goto error" was already unreachable, so possibly the error
is in an earlier patch. (I didn't look; Coverity flagged this in the
final state in 'jch').

Sorry about that.  It shows that I lack the bandwidth necessary to
go through fine toothed comb on all the topics I queue.  Perhaps I
should be more selective and queue only the ones I personally had
enough bandwidth to look over (or have seen clear "I looked each and
every line of this series with fine toothed comb, put reviewed-by:
me" messages sent by trusted reviewers) while ignoring others?

I dunno.

Thanks.