From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2020 10:22:42 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 02/16] init-db: set the_repository->hash_algo early on
Message-ID: <87o8jjnlot.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <cf667653dff437cee4c0d04e8c061a8b9ccc46a7.1606419752.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>


On Thu, Nov 26 2020, Han-Wen Nienhuys via GitGitGadget wrote:

> From: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com>
>
> The reftable backend needs to know the hash algorithm for writing the
> initialization hash table.
>
> The initial reftable contains a symref HEAD => "main" (or "master"), which is
> agnostic to the size of hash value, but this is an exceptional circumstance, and
> the reftable library does not cater for this exceptional. It insists that all

rephrase: "does not cater to this exception" maybe?