Re: another packed-refs race

> > The following solution might work in both the resolve-a-single-ref and
> > enumerating-refs case:
> > 
> > 0. Look for ref already cached in memory. If found, OK.
> > 
> > 1. Look for loose ref. If found, OK.
> > 
> > 2. If not found, load all loose refs and packed-refs from disk (in
> > that order), and store in memory for remainder of this process. Never
> > reload packed-refs from disk (unless you also reload all loose refs
> > first).
> 
> I think that would be correct (modulo that step 1 cannot happen for
> enumeration). But we would like to avoid loading all loose refs if we
> can. Especially on a cold cache, it can be quite slow, and you may not
> even care about those refs for the current operation (I do not recall
> the exact original motivation for the lazy loading, but it was something
> along those lines).