From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff King Subject: Re: push race Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2012 14:58:02 -0400 Message-ID: <20121015185802.GD31658@sigill.intra.peff.net> References: <507C1DB4.2010000@xiplink.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Cc: marcnarc@xiplink.com, =?utf-8?B?w4Z2YXIgQXJuZmrDtnLDsA==?= Bjarmason , git To: Angelo Borsotti X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Oct 15 20:58:31 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TNprm-0004fM-DJ for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Oct 2012 20:58:18 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754469Ab2JOS6H (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Oct 2012 14:58:07 -0400 Received: from 75-15-5-89.uvs.iplsin.sbcglobal.net ([75.15.5.89]:53129 "EHLO peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753157Ab2JOS6G (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Oct 2012 14:58:06 -0400 Received: (qmail 5110 invoked by uid 107); 15 Oct 2012 18:58:41 -0000 Received: from sigill.intra.peff.net (HELO sigill.intra.peff.net) (10.0.0.7) (smtp-auth username relayok, mechanism cram-md5) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.84) with ESMTPA; Mon, 15 Oct 2012 14:58:41 -0400 Received: by sigill.intra.peff.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Mon, 15 Oct 2012 14:58:02 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 05:50:47PM +0200, Angelo Borsotti wrote: > correct, there will be no file overwriting because no files are > written on the work tree. > I tried to follow the actions of the program, but did not quite catch > the 6. you mention. It is the "oldval" parameter to refs.c:update_ref. Or if you are using the "git update-ref" plumbing, it is the "oldvalue" parameter. -Peff