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From: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
To: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Cc: git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] fetch: report errors when backfilling tags fails
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2022 08:52:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP8UFD0MQCpFfWg2FP3S1VpDAxCwp3WGucFPn7K9BZ7UnckNLw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54fdee845bea7f67f46817417f8e5a504bd39665.1644565025.git.ps@pks.im>

On Fri, Feb 11, 2022 at 9:03 PM Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> wrote:
>
> When the backfilling of tags fails we do not report this error to the
> caller, but only report it implicitly at a later point when reporting
> updated references.

Probably stupid question: are we sure that it's a bug and not a feature?

> This leaves callers unable to act upon the
> information of whether the backfilling succeeded or not.
>
> Refactor the function to return an error code and pass it up the
> callstack. This causes us to correctly propagate the error back to the
> user of git-fetch(1).

Even if it would have been the right behavior when backfilling tags
was implemented to return an error when backfilling tags fails, I
think it's interesting to ask ourselves if this change could be seen
as a regression by some users.

  reply	other threads:[~2022-02-15  7:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-02-11  7:46 [PATCH 0/6] fetch: improve atomicity of `--atomic` flag Patrick Steinhardt
2022-02-11  7:46 ` [PATCH 1/6] fetch: increase test coverage of fetches Patrick Steinhardt
2022-02-15  6:19   ` Christian Couder
2022-02-17 11:13     ` Patrick Steinhardt
2022-02-11  7:46 ` [PATCH 2/6] fetch: backfill tags before setting upstream Patrick Steinhardt
2022-02-15  6:43   ` Christian Couder
2022-02-11  7:46 ` [PATCH 3/6] fetch: control lifecycle of FETCH_HEAD in a single place Patrick Steinhardt
2022-02-15  7:32   ` Christian Couder
2022-02-17 11:18     ` Patrick Steinhardt
2022-02-11  7:46 ` [PATCH 4/6] fetch: report errors when backfilling tags fails Patrick Steinhardt
2022-02-15  7:52   ` Christian Couder [this message]
2022-02-17 11:27     ` Patrick Steinhardt
2022-02-17 12:47       ` Patrick Steinhardt
2022-02-16 23:35   ` Jonathan Tan
2022-02-17  1:31   ` Elijah Newren
2022-02-11  7:47 ` [PATCH 5/6] fetch: make `--atomic` flag cover backfilling of tags Patrick Steinhardt
2022-02-15  8:11   ` Christian Couder
2022-02-16 23:41     ` Jonathan Tan
2022-02-17 11:37     ` Patrick Steinhardt
2022-02-17  1:34   ` Elijah Newren
2022-02-17 11:58     ` Patrick Steinhardt
2022-02-11  7:47 ` [PATCH 6/6] fetch: make `--atomic` flag cover pruning of refs Patrick Steinhardt
2022-02-15  9:12   ` Christian Couder
2022-02-17 12:03     ` Patrick Steinhardt
2022-02-16 23:39   ` Jonathan Tan
2022-02-17  1:40   ` Elijah Newren
2022-02-17 12:06     ` Patrick Steinhardt

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