if (is_packed_transaction_needed(refs->packed_ref_store,
packed_transaction)) {
ret = ref_transaction_prepare(packed_transaction, err);
+ /*
+ * A failure during the prepare step will abort
+ * itself, but not free. Do that now, and disconnect
+ * from the files_transaction so it does not try to
+ * abort us when we hit the cleanup code below.
+ */
+ if (ret) {
+ ref_transaction_free(packed_transaction);
+ backend_data->packed_transaction = NULL;
+ }
} else {
/*
* We can skip rewriting the `packed-refs`
test_cmp unchanged actual
'
+test_expect_success 'delete fails cleanly if packed-refs.new write fails' '
+ # Setup and expectations are similar to the test above.
+ prefix=refs/failed-packed-refs &&
+ git update-ref $prefix/foo $C &&
+ git pack-refs --all &&
+ git update-ref $prefix/foo $D &&
+ git for-each-ref $prefix >unchanged &&
+ # This should not happen in practice, but it is an easy way to get a
+ # reliable error (we open with create_tempfile(), which uses O_EXCL).
+ : >.git/packed-refs.new &&
+ test_when_finished "rm -f .git/packed-refs.new" &&
+ test_must_fail git update-ref -d $prefix/foo &&
+ git for-each-ref $prefix >actual &&
+ test_cmp unchanged actual
+'
+
test_done