Re: [PATCH v2] [GSOC] ref-filter: use single strbuf for all output

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> On Thu, Apr 08, 2021 at 08:18:59PM +0800, ZheNing Hu wrote:
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> > > I think this is a reasonable direction to take the solution: wrapping
> > > the loop so that the reuse of the buffers can be included there.
> > >
> > > But I do wonder if we should go the opposite direction, and get rid of
> > > show_ref_array_item() entirely. It only has two callers, both of which
> > > could just write the loop themselves. That is more code, but perhaps it
> > > would make it more clear what is going on in those callers, and to give
> > > them more flexibility.
> > >
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> > Indeed. I think `pretty_print_ref()` is proof that we may need to keep
> > `show_ref_array_item()` because If it modified to `show_ref_array_items(...,1);`
> > it will look very strange.
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> What I meant was that we should get rid of show_ref_array_items(), as
> well, and just use format_ref_array_item() everywhere. This whole
> wrapper is only saving us a few lines, and it makes it harder to see
> what the function is doing. Likewise for pretty-print ref. But I dunno.
> Maybe that is all going too far.
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