From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 23:19:27 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/2] Speed up fetch with large number of tags
Message-ID: <7vab0uwk8w.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20090916230350.GC14660@spearce.org>

"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes:

>> Also, you might not have noticed, but my illustration patch was merely
>> using it as a hint to optimize, and if the last ref we saw was not X when
>> it is turn to handle X^{}, it simply falled back to the original logic,
>> iow, the patch never compromised the correctness.
>
> Oh, I missed that.  JGit I think flat out panics and disconnects
> if the remote does this to us.  What is the incentive in supporting
> a broken server with a slower client?

There is none.

I think the original logic, being written in shell, run grep in the
output, and the C code we are seeing is a literal translation of that.

In other words, I think it is simply a historical accident.