Re: [PATCH 6/3] fast-import: Allow cat requests at arbitrary points in stream

From: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 8, 2010, 03:38 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTinU6TtFgLuQf54aZNE7-E3fDYLcmp25uiGRFgrV@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100908032736.GC23409@capella.cs.uchicago.edu>

Heya,

On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 22:27, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:

> Rather than planning in advance and saving up a bunch of objects
> before a "commit" command, frontends might want to wait until the
> middle of a commit and request objects then.

I'm not sure I understand the justification of this patch. Is the purpose of this patch to save you from having to loop over everything you want to commit in the next commit and cat-ing that in advance?

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier

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