Re: [PATCH 21/33] repack_without_ref(): write peeled refs in the rewritten file
Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> writes:
Show 8 quoted lines
> When a reference that existed in the packed-refs file is deleted, the
> packed-refs file must be rewritten. Previously, the file was
> rewritten without any peeled refs, even if the file contained peeled
> refs when it was read. This was not a bug, because the packed-refs
> file header didn't claim that the file contained peeled values. But
> it had a performance cost, because the repository would lose the
> benefit of having precomputed peeled references until pack-refs was
> run again.
> Teach repack_without_ref() to write peeled refs to the packed-refs
> file (regardless of whether they were present in the old version of
> the file).
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>