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authorBence Ferdinandy <bence@ferdinandy.com>2024-11-22 13:28:44 +0100
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2024-11-25 11:46:35 +0900
commit8102d10ff8317c1e0ba5afb3a41b6a2bc523ff97 (patch)
tree9bbd2ef07f0b60889172b6147f09dec77a96749c /refs/reftable-backend.c
parent2fd55558950bdfe43fd28ca17b50691427842c35 (diff)
downloadgit-8102d10ff8317c1e0ba5afb3a41b6a2bc523ff97.tar.xz
refs: standardize output of refs_read_symbolic_ref
When the symbolic reference we want to read with refs_read_symbolic_ref is actually not a symbolic reference, the files and the reftable backends return different values (1 and -1 respectively). Standardize the returned values so that 0 is success, -1 is a generic error and -2 is that the reference was actually non-symbolic. Signed-off-by: Bence Ferdinandy <bence@ferdinandy.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'refs/reftable-backend.c')
-rw-r--r--refs/reftable-backend.c6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/refs/reftable-backend.c b/refs/reftable-backend.c
index 3c96fbf66f..f74b8c4bb4 100644
--- a/refs/reftable-backend.c
+++ b/refs/reftable-backend.c
@@ -830,10 +830,12 @@ static int reftable_be_read_symbolic_ref(struct ref_store *ref_store,
return ret;
ret = reftable_stack_read_ref(stack, refname, &ref);
- if (ret == 0 && ref.value_type == REFTABLE_REF_SYMREF)
+ if (ret)
+ ret = -1;
+ else if (ref.value_type == REFTABLE_REF_SYMREF)
strbuf_addstr(referent, ref.value.symref);
else
- ret = -1;
+ ret = NOT_A_SYMREF;
reftable_ref_record_release(&ref);
return ret;