Re: [PATCH/RFC 6/7] refs: add update_refs for multiple simultaneous updates

From: Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com>
Date: Aug 29, 2013, 19:30 UTC
Message-ID: <521FA154.8050105@kitware.com>
In-Reply-To: <521F90EC.6040208@kitware.com>

On 08/29/2013 02:20 PM, Brad King wrote:

> I wasn't happy with the asymmetry either but forgot to raise it in
> the cover letter.  We need a way to represent "old value not given"
> as different from "old value is_null_sha1".

[snip]

> Another approach is to add a dedicated member to struct ref_update.

FYI, I chose the latter approach for simplicity. The member can be folded into the flags by future refactoring if needed.

-Brad

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