Re: [PATCH v3 09/23] cat-file: start use ref_array_item struct

> On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 08:08:54AM +0000, Olga Telezhnaya wrote:
>
>> Moving from using expand_data to ref_array_item structure.
>> That helps us to reuse functions from ref-filter easier.
>
> This one feels weird. The point of a ref_array_item is for the caller to
> feed data into the ref-filter formatting code (usually that data comes
> from an earlier call to filter_refs(), but in the new cat-file we'd
> presumably feed single items).
>
> But here we're adding a bunch of fields for items that we'd expect the
> format code to compute itself.