Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:

Karthik Nayak [off-list ref] writes:

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This error type is bubbled up to `files_transaction_prepare()` which
tries to lock each reference update by calling `lock_ref_for_update()`.
So if the locking fails, we check if the rejection type can be ignored,
which is done by calling `ref_transaction_maybe_set_rejected()`.

Only during batched updates would errors be ignore and only for
non-generic errors. So this change would specifically only apply for
batched updates. Currently that is used by:

    1. git fetch
    2. git receive-pack
    3. git update-ref --batch-updates

And for all three scenarios I think it makes sense to add this in.

Thanks for an extra explanation.

These pieces of information would be necessary in the proposed log
message when it becomes a real patch.

Yup. I will send it in soon. Was a bit busy last week with the OSSE and
Git mini summit.