From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pb-smtp1.pobox.com (pb-smtp1.pobox.com [64.147.108.70]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BB8A015AAC5 for ; Thu, 2 May 2024 16:00:17 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=64.147.108.70 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1714665619; cv=none; b=mtjBLUdBkZuv4pvRgcXtK26JrcOyDuqw94OBV18RlwPe6tVN/eb7qUYjoiwbwFv0gKpvoYMG2vExmZPok7Imz4WEJNl172vIRARnslVBghFt/BJlzF1LgiGumOqjSEjSWSIqwlaUc7MKJ2ZETjAmSQtq4gIXfcqmi7qUAUVE/iA= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1714665619; c=relaxed/simple; bh=ZbWU6tj/SLETqeNGRVSd+Ww5nA64O36GlnRIZuwUo4c=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:Date:Message-ID: MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=PFbDfHTcGdLAe0dQ/xXhCSXvupjueOFrQHRzw53Yn1tj4KIbh2VpwRRzYnEfT/yVzqcjNCW3uNZ57UqvETpkYv9Shh7HE1Lr4Jo5yKoALwEUkM2vkJAJHPuF1qlPom5siOMI5zxoXxFawJFX7zpWRsMWnkbSBUYoCTwkEP/vKH8= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=pobox.com; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=pobox.com; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=pobox.com header.i=@pobox.com header.b=N3Yf5P0Y; arc=none smtp.client-ip=64.147.108.70 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=pobox.com Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=pobox.com Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=pobox.com header.i=@pobox.com header.b="N3Yf5P0Y" Received: from pb-smtp1.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp1.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91194216F7; Thu, 2 May 2024 12:00:16 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from junio@pobox.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=ZbWU6tj/SLETqeNGRVSd+Ww5nA64O36GlnRIZu wUo4c=; b=N3Yf5P0YOFw0Pwby26WS0pmKo4/TWVoFi7+OvPSWCyRhcHs0Pf45cn nBmLYNGdzjaYCir169ZljfIMwySow9nX8ZOEnZwQdfaprisjjtP32ELXOmABiREE Fq3ClAqOpc40F/c3Mp5zg0PUu/zWeqFqAp7CnuPLUbLaGpxLwl7WA= Received: from pb-smtp1.nyi.icgroup.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp1.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89BB1216F4; Thu, 2 May 2024 12:00:16 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from junio@pobox.com) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [34.125.120.109]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pb-smtp1.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id CCC59216F0; Thu, 2 May 2024 12:00:15 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from junio@pobox.com) From: Junio C Hamano To: Karthik Nayak Cc: christian.couder@gmail.com, git@vger.kernel.org, ps@pks.im Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 4/7] refs: add support for transactional symref updates In-Reply-To: (Karthik Nayak's message of "Thu, 2 May 2024 05:50:47 +0000") References: <20240426152449.228860-1-knayak@gitlab.com> <20240501202229.2695774-1-knayak@gitlab.com> <20240501202229.2695774-5-knayak@gitlab.com> Date: Thu, 02 May 2024 09:00:14 -0700 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 10EBEB9A-089D-11EF-AD3F-78DCEB2EC81B-77302942!pb-smtp1.pobox.com Karthik Nayak writes: > ... By > having zero-oid for the new and old value in the reflog. But seems like > we can't do that either. Even if you could, the transition from refs/heads/main to refs/heads/next would not be captured. In any case, that is not something this step changes. My assumption is that for most of developers it would be unexpected for the theme to "allow symbolic updates to be transactional" to change it, hence "we do not explain what we did not change". Thanks.