refs.c: commit_packed_refs to return a meaningful errno on failure

Making errno when returning from commit_packed_refs() meaningful,
which should fix

 * a bug in "git clone" where it prints strerror(errno) based on
   errno, despite errno possibly being zero and potentially having
   been clobbered by that point
 * the same kind of bug in "git pack-refs"

and prepares for repack_without_refs() to get a meaningful
error message when commit_packed_refs() fails without falling into
the same bug.

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, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/refs.h b/refs.h
index 8d6cac717b..e588ff842f 100644
--- a/refs.h
+++ b/refs.h
@@ -98,6 +98,7 @@ extern void add_packed_ref(const char *refname, const unsigned char *sha1);
  * Write the current version of the packed refs cache from memory to
  * disk.  The packed-refs file must already be locked for writing (see
  * lock_packed_refs()).  Return zero on success.
+ * Sets errno to something meaningful on error.
  */
 extern int commit_packed_refs(void);