From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2017 18:40:26 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/12] for_each_alternate_ref: use strbuf for path allocation
Message-ID: <20170125184026.cm324yefycsrhhin@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqvat3at8u.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 10:29:05AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> 
> > We have a string with ".../objects" pointing to the
> > alternate object store, and overwrite bits of it to look at
> > other paths in the (potential) git repository holding it.
> > This works because the only path we care about is "refs",
> > which is shorter than "objects".
> 
> Yup, this was probably copied from a lazy original I wrote ;-)
> Thanks for cleaning up.

To be fair, the original predates all of the helper functions I used
here. :)

-Peff