From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 05:08:58 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove hash in git-describe in favor of util slot.
Message-ID: <7vvej8ev11.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070115031655.GA11809@spearce.org>

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

> Currently we don't use the util field of struct commit but we want
> fast access to the highest priority name that references any given
> commit object during our matching loop.  A really simple approach
> is to just store the name directly in the util field.

That's the right thing to do, I would agree.