From: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 18:47:08 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/7] Provide API to invalidate refs cache
Message-ID: <20111017184708.GB2540@sandbox-rc>
In-Reply-To: <1318819091-7066-1-git-send-email-mhagger@alum.mit.edu>

Hi,

On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 04:38:04AM +0200, mhagger@alum.mit.edu wrote:
> I won't myself have time to figure out who, outside of refs.c, has to
> *call* invalidate_ref_cache().  The candidates that I know off the top
> of my head are git-clone, git-submodule [1], and git-pack-refs.  It
> would be great if experts in those areas would insert calls to
> invalidate_ref_cache() where needed.

[...]

> [1] http://marc.info/?l=git&m=131827641227965&w=2
>     In this mailing list thread, Heiko Voigt stated that git-submodule
>     does not modify any references, so it should not have to use the
>     API.

This is not entirely true. I was saying that my submodule-merge code is
currently the only one using the refs api for submodules and that does
not need to modify submodule refs. I imagine that there will be some
users when submodule support matures (e.g. recursive push).

Cheers Heiko