From: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2026 19:27:27 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/13] commit-graph: require resolved packfile paths for `stdin_packs`
Message-ID: <CAOLa=ZS_S3bYXEufor7AgXpX76NwtV4NJdGRO57-bpSkYZrzvw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20261002-pks-odb-move-alternates-v1-1-8a63507b88c4@pks.im>

Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> writes:

> Users can ask git-commit-graph(1) to write a commit graph specifically
> for a set of packfiles via the "--stdin-packs" option. Those users are
> expected to pass in relative paths, and those eventually get resolved in
> `fill_oids_from_packs()`. This ties the logic in "commit-graph.c" to the
> specific object database source.
>
> Refactor the logic to instead require the caller to pass in resolved
> packfiles to untangle that dependency.
>

Nit: the changes look good, what I'm missing is 'why' are we doing this
change.

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