Re: [PATCH] clean cached refs when calling set_git_dir()

From: Julius Plenz <plenz@cis.fu-berlin.de>
Date: Mar 10, 2011, 16:09 UTC
Message-ID: <20110310160948.GL15960@plenz.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTik1HMQqKc98AF-6DTGJgrk8HOjZTimGnK-XBv-q@mail.gmail.com>

Hi!

* Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> [2011-03-10 17:00]:

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> On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 10:19 PM, Julius Plenz <plenz@cis.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> > If you use libgit.a to perform reference resolutions on two or more
> > repositories that contain packed refs, cached_refs will store the packed
> > refs for the first repository to contain a packed-refs file only.
> 
> If you use libgit.a to do anything on more than one repository, you
> get a lot more messed up that just that. Spawning a new process or
> accessing with libgit2 may be safer. Why do you want to do that in the
> first place?

I was working on the cgit repository browser, where you have to peek into several repositories to create the overview page. Since cgit links to libgit.a I fixed the bug there. Not sure if that's the proper way to do it, though...

Julius