git grep: Add "-z/--null" option as in GNU's grep.

[git.git] / refs.c

diff --git a/refs.c b/refs.c
index 6c6e9e5e1963e74307266b432e58a5fe51a9ce39..b6807505e243fd26cae50460bc003254406ae7e5 100644 (file)
--- a/refs.c
+++ b/refs.c
@@ -390,6 +390,18 @@ int resolve_gitlink_ref(const char *path, const char *refname, unsigned char *re
        return retval;
 }
 
+/*
+ * If the "reading" argument is set, this function finds out what _object_
+ * the ref points at by "reading" the ref.  The ref, if it is not symbolic,
+ * has to exist, and if it is symbolic, it has to point at an existing ref,
+ * because the "read" goes through the symref to the ref it points at.
+ *
+ * The access that is not "reading" may often be "writing", but does not
+ * have to; it can be merely checking _where it leads to_. If it is a
+ * prelude to "writing" to the ref, a write to a symref that points at
+ * yet-to-be-born ref will create the real ref pointed by the symref.
+ * reading=0 allows the caller to check where such a symref leads to.
+ */
 const char *resolve_ref(const char *ref, unsigned char *sha1, int reading, int *flag)
 {
        int depth = MAXDEPTH;
@@ -409,13 +421,7 @@ const char *resolve_ref(const char *ref, unsigned char *sha1, int reading, int *
                if (--depth < 0)
                        return NULL;
 
-               /* Special case: non-existing file.
-                * Not having the refs/heads/new-branch is OK
-                * if we are writing into it, so is .git/HEAD
-                * that points at refs/heads/master still to be
-                * born.  It is NOT OK if we are resolving for
-                * reading.
-                */
+               /* Special case: non-existing file. */
                if (lstat(path, &st) < 0) {
                        struct ref_list *list = get_packed_refs();
                        while (list) {
@@ -925,7 +931,7 @@ int delete_ref(const char *refname, const unsigned char *sha1)
                i = strlen(lock->lk->filename) - 5; /* .lock */
                lock->lk->filename[i] = 0;
                err = unlink(lock->lk->filename);
-               if (err) {
+               if (err && errno != ENOENT) {
                        ret = 1;
                        error("unlink(%s) failed: %s",
                              lock->lk->filename, strerror(errno));