refs.c: add a strbuf argument to ref_transaction_commit for error logging

Add a strbuf argument to _commit so that we can pass an error string back to
the caller. So that we can do error logging from the caller instead of from
_commit.

Longer term plan is to first convert all callers to use onerr==QUIET_ON_ERR
and craft any log messages from the callers themselves and finally remove the
onerr argument completely.

Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
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.c b/refs.c
index 1d6dece426..db05602590 100644
--- a/refs.c
+++ b/refs.c
@@ -3444,7 +3444,8 @@ static int ref_update_reject_duplicates(struct ref_update **updates, int n,
 }
 
 int ref_transaction_commit(struct ref_transaction *transaction,
-			   const char *msg, enum action_on_err onerr)
+			   const char *msg, struct strbuf *err,
+			   enum action_on_err onerr)
 {
 	int ret = 0, delnum = 0, i;
 	const char **delnames;
@@ -3473,6 +3474,9 @@ int ref_transaction_commit(struct ref_transaction *transaction,
 					       update->flags,
 					       &update->type, onerr);
 		if (!update->lock) {
+			if (err)
+				strbuf_addf(err, "Cannot lock the ref '%s'.",
+					    update->refname);
 			ret = 1;
 			goto cleanup;
 		}