Re: [PATCH 01/41] cache: add a function to read an object ID from a buffer

From: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 24, 2018, 09:39 UTC
Message-ID: <CAN0heSqvKbSiuNWhHte_HHT-wcewEjm1qVvSoYbZcUKMLT74ig@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20180423233951.276447-2-sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>

On 24 April 2018 at 01:39, brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> wrote:

> In various places throughout the codebase, we need to read data into a
> struct object_id from a pack or other unsigned char buffer.  Add an
> inline function that does this based on the current hash algorithm in
> use, and use it in several places.

Makes sense. Grepping for "memcpy.*hash" turns up a few instances that look similar, but not quite, so we would *not* want to do this conversion there, e.g., hashmap.h and notes.c.

Martin

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