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Re: [PATCH 3/4] read-cache: hide refresh_cache_entry()

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Oct 30, 2026, 18:25 UTC
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<20261030182519.GD7582@coredump.intra.peff.net>
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On Fri, Oct 30, 2026 at 10:39:55AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Once upon a time, there was a merge strategy called "recursive",
> which was added in 6d297f8137 (Status update on merge-recursive in
> C, 2006-07-08).
  $ git log --grep='Once upon' --format=%an  | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn
       22 Jeff King
        4 SZEDER Gábor
        2 Johannes Schindelin
        1 Jonas Fonseca
        1 Elijah Newren
Welcome to the club. :)

The patch itself seems obviously correct, and the commit message is a nice overview of how we got here.

-Peff
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Message 11 of 14 in “mark symbols that are unnecessarily public static”
  1. 0/4 mark symbols that are unnecessarily public staticJunio C Hamano, Oct 30, 2026
  2. 1/4 ident: remove unused author_ident_sufficiently_given()Junio C Hamano, Oct 30, 2026
  3. Jeff KingOct 30, 2026
  4. Patrick SteinhardtNov 3, 2026
  5. Junio C HamanoNov 3, 2026
  6. Patrick SteinhardtNov 4, 2026
  7. 2/4 add -i: hide init/clear_add_i_state() functionsJunio C Hamano, Oct 30, 2026
  8. Patrick SteinhardtNov 3, 2026
  9. Junio C HamanoNov 3, 2026
  10. 3/4 read-cache: hide refresh_cache_entry()Junio C Hamano, Oct 30, 2026
  11. Jeff KingOct 30, 2026
  12. 4/4 unpack-trees: hide verify_uptodate()Junio C Hamano, Oct 30, 2026
  13. Jeff KingOct 30, 2026
  14. Patrick SteinhardtNov 3, 2026

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