refs.c: verify_lock should set errno to something meaningful

Making errno when returning from verify_lock() meaningful, which
should almost but not completely fix

 * a bug in "git fetch"'s s_update_ref, which trusts the result of an
   errno == ENOTDIR check to detect D/F conflicts

ENOTDIR makes sense as a sign that a file was in the way of a
directory we wanted to create.  Should "git fetch" also look for
ENOTEMPTY or EEXIST to catch cases where a directory was in the way
of a file to be created?

Signed-off-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <sahlberg@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Acked-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/refs.h b/refs.h
index 82cc5cb..8d6cac7 100644
--- a/refs.h
+++ b/refs.h
@@ -137,11 +137,15 @@ extern int ref_exists(const char *);
  */
 extern int peel_ref(const char *refname, unsigned char *sha1);
 
-/** Locks a "refs/" ref returning the lock on success and NULL on failure. **/
+/*
+ * Locks a "refs/" ref returning the lock on success and NULL on failure.
+ * On failure errno is set to something meaningful.
+ */
 extern struct ref_lock *lock_ref_sha1(const char *refname, const unsigned char *old_sha1);
 
 /** Locks any ref (for 'HEAD' type refs). */
 #define REF_NODEREF	0x01
+/* errno is set to something meaningful on failure */
 extern struct ref_lock *lock_any_ref_for_update(const char *refname,
 						const unsigned char *old_sha1,
 						int flags, int *type_p);