From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 18:29:21 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 11/21] mmapped_ref_iterator_advance(): no peeled value for broken refs
Message-ID: <20170920182921.6c7zndcghivzevg3@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <d34d2cbde67e9ef0b0b11910de19c7f722c2314c.1505799700.git.mhagger@alum.mit.edu>

On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 08:22:19AM +0200, Michael Haggerty wrote:

> If a reference is broken, suppress its peeled value.

Makes sense. Without this we might return an answer for "git show
tag^{commit}" even if the repo is broken and the object pointed to by
"tag" is missing.

-Peff