Re: [GSoC] My Git Dev Blog — Week 6

From: Atharva Raykar <raykar.ath@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 28, 2021, 07:48 UTC
Message-ID: <F28CA742-014E-4279-8A0C-825DF773FA33@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAP8UFD2xCzJ7hxd_Of0FWnPKGzm9j9DizK55GyMhedzGgbs8gA@mail.gmail.com>

On 28-Jun-2021, at 03:37, Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sun, Jun 27, 2021 at 1:24 PM Atharva Raykar <raykar.ath@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Here's the latest instalment of my weekly Git blog:
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> s/instalment/installment/

Instalment is the commonwealth spelling: https://wikidiff.com/instalment/installment

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>> https://atharvaraykar.me/gitnotes/week6
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> Great, thanks!
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> Small nit: s/has not not yet/has not yet/

Thanks, I'll update it.

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> About "This kind of an invocation was done before in the context of
> submodules, but it does not look reusable to me because it seems to
> have side effects, that meddle with the repository’s object store."
> couldn't a commit walk do the job (see
> Documentation/MyFirstObjectWalk.txt)?

I did have a look at it (not very thorough, though), and I immediately felt that it was too low-level to be a drop-in replacement for 'is_tip_reachable'. I'll have a more thorough look at it though, and see if I can make that work out nicely.