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Re: [PATCH v2] fetch: support hideRefs to speed up connectivity checks

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Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Feb 13, 2023, 20:53 UTC
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On Sun, Feb 12, 2023 at 09:04:26AM +0000, Eric Wong wrote:
>  Sidenote: I'm curious about the reason $(pwd) is used in some
>  places while $PWD seems fine in others, so it doesn't seem to be
>  a portability problem.  I chose $PWD since it's faster.

It sometimes matters; one is a Windows path (with "C:\", etc) and one is a Unix-style path. Many spots are happy with either type, but it sometimes bites us when doing string comparisons, or in a few specific cases. See

  https://lore.kernel.org/git/d36d8b51-f2d7-a2f5-89ea-369f49556e10@kdbg.org/
for an example.
-Peff
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Message 8 of 11 in “[RFC] fetch: support hideRefs to speed up connectivity checks”
  1. Eric WongFeb 9, 2023
  2. Jonathan TanFeb 10, 2023
  3. Eric WongFeb 10, 2023
  4. Junio C HamanoFeb 10, 2023
  5. Eric WongFeb 11, 2023
  6. Junio C HamanoFeb 11, 2023
  7. fetch: support hideRefs to speed up connectivity checksEric Wong, Feb 12, 2023
  8. Jeff KingFeb 13, 2023
  9. Philip OakleyFeb 13, 2023
  10. Jeff KingFeb 14, 2023
  11. Eric WongFeb 16, 2023

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