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[PATCH v2 2/4] refs/files: use correct error type when lock exists

From: Karthik Nayak <hidden>
Date: 2025-09-08 12:37:42
Subsystem: the rest · Maintainer: Linus Torvalds

When fetching references into a repository, if a lock for a particular
reference exists, then `lock_raw_ref()` throws the generic error
'REF_TRANSACTION_ERROR_GENERIC'. This causes the entire set of batched
updates to fail.

Instead, return a 'REF_TRANSACTION_ERROR_CREATE_EXISTS' error. This
allows batched updates to reject the individual update which conflicts
with the existing file, while updating the rest of the references.

Signed-off-by: Karthik Nayak <redacted>
---
 refs/files-backend.c | 10 +++++++---
 t/t5510-fetch.sh     | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/refs/files-backend.c b/refs/files-backend.c
index 58005d2732..2730713d23 100644
--- a/refs/files-backend.c
+++ b/refs/files-backend.c
@@ -790,9 +790,13 @@ static enum ref_transaction_error lock_raw_ref(struct files_ref_store *refs,
 			goto retry;
 		} else {
 			unable_to_lock_message(ref_file.buf, myerr, err);
-			if (myerr == EEXIST && ignore_case &&
-			    duplicate_reference_case_cmp(transaction, update))
-				ret = REF_TRANSACTION_ERROR_CASE_CONFLICT;
+			if (myerr == EEXIST) {
+				if (ignore_case && duplicate_reference_case_cmp(transaction, update))
+					ret = REF_TRANSACTION_ERROR_CASE_CONFLICT;
+				else
+					ret = REF_TRANSACTION_ERROR_CREATE_EXISTS;
+			}
+
 			goto error_return;
 		}
 	}
diff --git a/t/t5510-fetch.sh b/t/t5510-fetch.sh
index 57f60da81b..6f8db0ace4 100755
--- a/t/t5510-fetch.sh
+++ b/t/t5510-fetch.sh
@@ -1546,6 +1546,32 @@ test_expect_success CASE_INSENSITIVE_FS,REFFILES 'existing references in a case
 	)
 '
 
+test_expect_success REFFILES 'existing reference lock in repo' '
+	test_when_finished rm -rf base repo &&
+	(
+		git init --ref-format=reftable base &&
+		cd base &&
+		echo >file update &&
+		git add . &&
+		git commit -m "updated" &&
+		git branch -M main &&
+
+		git update-ref refs/heads/foo @ &&
+		git update-ref refs/heads/branch @ &&
+		cd .. &&
+
+		git init --ref-format=files --bare repo &&
+		cd repo &&
+		git remote add origin ../base &&
+		touch refs/heads/foo.lock &&
+		test_must_fail git fetch -f origin "refs/heads/*:refs/heads/*" 2>err &&
+		test_grep "error: fetching ref refs/heads/foo failed: reference already exists" err &&
+		git rev-parse refs/heads/main >expect &&
+		git rev-parse refs/heads/branch >actual &&
+		test_cmp expect actual
+	)
+'
+
 . "$TEST_DIRECTORY"/lib-httpd.sh
 start_httpd
 
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