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When creating the ref database we unconditionally create the "refs/" directory in "setup.c". This is a mandatory prerequisite for all Git repositories regardless of the ref backend in use, because Git will be unable to detect the directory as a repository if "refs/" doesn't exist. We are about to add another new caller that will want to create a ref database when creating worktrees. We would require the same logic to create the "refs/" directory even though the caller really should not care about such low-level details. Ideally, the ref database should be fully initialized after calling `refs_init_db()`. Move the code to create the directory into the files backend itself to make it so. This means that future ref backends will also need to have equivalent logic around to ensure that the directory exists, but it seems a lot more sensible to have it this way round than to require callers to create the directory themselves. An alternative to this would be to create "refs/" in `refs_init_db()` directly. This feels conceptually unclean though as the creation of the refdb is now cluttered across different callsites. Furthermore, both the "files" and the upcoming "reftable" backend write backend-specific data into the "refs/" directory anyway, so splitting up this logic would only make it harder to reason about. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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