From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 23:42:19 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git: add --no-replace-objects option to disable replacing
Message-ID: <7vmy3w5gdg.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20091012203033.8939.43473.chriscool@tuxfamily.org>

Thanks.

I understand that the replace mechanism is lazily initialized so it would
be Ok to flip this variable as long as it is done before anybody makes the
first call to read_sha1_file().  I am guessing the assignment the patch
adds is early enough but I didn't audit the code.