Error messages should be sentence fragments, and therefore:
1. Should not begin with a capital letter,
2. Should not conclude with punctuation, and
3. Should not end a sentence and begin a new one
On Windows we can find locked files even when reading a reference or the
packed-refs file. Bubble up the error in this case as well to allow
callers on Windows to retry more intelligently.
As refdb and odb backends can be allocated by client code, libgit2
can’t know whether an alternative memory allocator was used, and thus
should not try to call `git__free` on those objects.
Instead, odb and refdb backend implementations must always provide
their own `free` functions to ensure memory gets freed correctly.
A transaction allows you to lock multiple references and set up changes
for them before applying the changes all at once (or as close as the
backend supports).
This can be used for replication purposes, or for making sure some
operations run when the reference is locked and thus cannot be changed.
The frontend used to look at the file directly, but that's obviously not
the right thing to do. Expose it on the backend and use that function
instead.
Whenever a reference is created or updated, we need to write to the
reflog regardless of whether the user gave us a message, so we shouldn't
leave that to the ref frontend, but integrate it into the backend.
This also eliminates the race between ref update and writing to the
reflog, as we protect the reflog with the ref lock.
As an additional benefit, this reflog append on the backend happens by
appending to the file instead of parsing and rewriting it.
References and their logs are logically coupled, let's make it so in
the code by moving the fs-based reflog implementation to live next to
the fs-based refs one.
As part of the change, make the function take names rather than
references, as only the names are relevant when looking up and
handling reflogs.
By zeroing out the memory when we free larger objects (i.e. those
that serve as collections of other data, such as repos, odb, refdb),
I'm hoping that it will be easier for libgit2 bindings to find
errors in their object management code.
Nobody should ever be using anything other than ALL at this level, so
remove the option altogether.
As part of this, git_reference_foreach_glob is now implemented in the
frontend using an iterator. Backends will later regain the ability of
doing the glob filtering in the backend.
This moves most of the refdb stuff over to the include/git2/sys
directory, with some minor shifts in function organization.
While I was making the necessary updates, I also removed the
trailing whitespace in a few files that I modified just because I
was there and it was bugging me.
