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Multi-ref transaction support we merged a few releases ago unnecessarily kept many file descriptors open, risking to fail with resource exhaustion. This is for 2.4.x track. * mh/write-refs-sooner-2.4: ref_transaction_commit(): fix atomicity and avoid fd exhaustion ref_transaction_commit(): remove the local flags variable ref_transaction_commit(): inline call to write_ref_sha1() rename_ref(): inline calls to write_ref_sha1() from this function commit_ref_update(): new function, extracted from write_ref_sha1() write_ref_to_lockfile(): new function, extracted from write_ref_sha1() t7004: rename ULIMIT test prerequisite to ULIMIT_STACK_SIZE update-ref: test handling large transactions properly ref_transaction_commit(): fix atomicity and avoid fd exhaustion ref_transaction_commit(): remove the local flags variable ref_transaction_commit(): inline call to write_ref_sha1() rename_ref(): inline calls to write_ref_sha1() from this function commit_ref_update(): new function, extracted from write_ref_sha1() write_ref_to_lockfile(): new function, extracted from write_ref_sha1() t7004: rename ULIMIT test prerequisite to ULIMIT_STACK_SIZE update-ref: test handling large transactions properly
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