From: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 07:43:50 GMT
Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (Aug 2011, #07; Wed, 24)
Message-ID: <4E55FD36.1020107@alum.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <7vk4a2mjx6.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On 08/25/2011 02:09 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> * mh/iterate-refs (2011-08-14) 6 commits
>  - Retain caches of submodule refs
>  - Store the submodule name in struct cached_refs
>  - Allocate cached_refs objects dynamically
>  - Change the signature of read_packed_refs()
>  - Access reference caches only through new function get_cached_refs()
>  - Extract a function clear_cached_refs()
> 
> I did not see anything fundamentally wrong with this series, but it was
> unclear what the benefit of these changes are.  If the series were to read
> parts of the ref hierarchy (like refs/heads/) lazily, the story would
> have been different, though.

I am still working on lazy reading and hierarchical storage of reference
caches.  It's OK with me if you defer merging the above patch series
until I have made more progress on the more significant improvements.

Michael

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