From: Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 19:30:28 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC 6/7] refs: add update_refs for multiple simultaneous updates
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