refs/files: remove unused "errno == EISDIR" code

When we lock a reference like "foo" we need to handle the case where "foo" exists, but is an empty directory. That's what this code added in bc7127ef0f (ref locking: allow 'foo' when 'foo/bar' used to exist but not anymore., 2006-09-30) seems like it should be dealing with. Except it doesn't, and we never take this branch. The reason is that when bc7127ef0f was written this looked like: ref = resolve_ref([...]); if (!ref && errno == EISDIR) { [...] And in resolve_ref() we had this code: fd = open(path, O_RDONLY); if (fd < 0) return NULL; I.e. we would attempt to read "foo" with open(), which would fail with EISDIR and we'd return NULL. We'd then take this branch, call remove_empty_directories() and continue. Since a1c1d8170d (refs_resolve_ref_unsafe: handle d/f conflicts for writes, 2017-10-06) we don't. E.g. in the case of files_copy_or_rename_ref() our callstack will look something like: [...] -> files_copy_or_rename_ref() -> lock_ref_oid_basic() -> refs_resolve_ref_unsafe() At that point the first (now only) refs_resolve_ref_unsafe() call in lock_ref_oid_basic() would do the equivalent of this in the resulting call to refs_read_raw_ref() in refs_resolve_ref_unsafe(): /* Via refs_read_raw_ref() */ fd = open(path, O_RDONLY); if (fd < 0) /* get errno == EISDIR */ /* later, in refs_resolve_ref_unsafe() */ if ([...] && errno != EISDIR) return NULL; [...] /* returns the refs/heads/foo to the caller, even though it's a directory */ return refname; I.e. even though we got an "errno == EISDIR" we won't take this branch, since in cases of EISDIR "resolved" is always non-NULL. I.e. we pretend at this point as though everything's OK and there is no "foo" directory. We then proceed with the entire ref update and don't call remove_empty_directories() until we call commit_ref_update(). See 5387c0d883 (commit_ref(): if there is an empty dir in the way, delete it, 2016-05-05) for the addition of that code, and a1c1d8170db (refs_resolve_ref_unsafe: handle d/f conflicts for writes, 2017-10-06) for the commit that changed the original codepath added in bc7127ef0f to use this "EISDIR" handling. Further historical commentary: Before the two preceding commits the caller in files_reflog_expire() was the only one out of our 4 callers that would pass non-NULL as an oid. We would then set a (now gone) "resolve_flags" to "RESOLVE_REF_READING" and just before that "errno != EISDIR" check do: if (resolve_flags & RESOLVE_REF_READING) return NULL; There may have been some case where this ended up mattering and we couldn't safely make this change before we removed the "oid" parameter, but I don't think there was, see [1] for some discussion on that. In any case, now that we've removed the "oid" parameter in a preceding commit we can be sure that this code is redundant, so let's remove it. 1. http://lore.kernel.org/git/871r801yp6.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>