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From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
Subject: Re: Atomicity of git-push operation.
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 07:25:29 -0800
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Jan Zalcman <zalcman@9livesdata.com> wrote:
>  I have a simple question about "push" operation but I couldn't find an
> answer: is git-push (also with --tags flag) atomic ? Especially: if refs
> changing (during push) is atomic ?

Yes, its atomic, at the per-ref level.

If you push 3 refs, and one of them updates during the push, the
other two will push successfully, but the one that was updated will
be rejected.

-- 
Shawn.