Re: [PATCH] cvsserver: imitate git-update-ref when committing

[Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>]

You might want to also consider appending to the reflog, if it
exists/is enabled.  I still need to get upload-pack to do this but it
may be useful for some heads for some people...  or maybe not.  :-)

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> 
> git-update-ref writes into the lockfile, and renames it afterwards. Like 
> commit v1.3.0-rc3~22, it is not only cleaner, but also helps with shared 
> setups: every developer can have a different primary group; what matters 
> is that $GIT_DIR/refs/heads has to be writable by a group you are in.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
> ---
>  git-cvsserver.perl |    8 ++++----
>  1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/git-cvsserver.perl b/git-cvsserver.perl
> index 1b70cd9..2c1b0c7 100755
> --- a/git-cvsserver.perl
> +++ b/git-cvsserver.perl
> @@ -1144,9 +1144,7 @@ sub req_ci
>          exit;
>      }
>  
> -    open FILE, ">", "$ENV{GIT_DIR}refs/heads/$state->{module}";
> -    print FILE $commithash;
> -    close FILE;
> +    print LOCKFILE $commithash;
>  
>      $updater->update();
>  
> @@ -1173,7 +1171,9 @@ sub req_ci
>      }
>  
>      close LOCKFILE;
> -    unlink($lockfile);
> +    my $reffile = "$ENV{GIT_DIR}refs/heads/$state->{module}";
> +    unlink($reffile);
> +    rename($lockfile, $reffile);
>      chdir "/";
>  
>      print "ok\n";
> -- 
> 1.4.2.rc2.g2b3d-dirty

-- 
Shawn.