From: Josh Steadmon <steadmon@google.com>
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2021 18:33:13 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/7] refs: plumb repo into ref stores
Message-ID: <YV89aRzwnP4Jk8x1@google.com>
In-Reply-To: <80673975382af534cafaec3fdc034966d6f41105.1632956589.git.jonathantanmy@google.com>

On 2021.09.29 16:06, Jonathan Tan wrote:
> In preparation for the next 2 patches that adds (partial) support for
> arbitrary repositories to ref iterators, plumb a repository into all ref
> stores. There are no changes to program logic.
> 
> (The repository is plumbed into the ref stores instead of directly into
> the ref iterators themselves, so that existing code that operates on ref
> stores do not need to be modified to also handle repositories.)

The second paragraph is a bit confusing, as in patch 2 we do end up
adding repository pointers into various iterators. Could you clarify
this a bit?