Re: [PATCH 07/15] refs: plumb `exclude_patterns` argument throughout

> On Mon, May 08, 2023 at 06:00:01PM -0400, Taylor Blau wrote:
> > The subsequent patch will want to access an optional `excluded_patterns`
> > array within refs/packed-backend.c. To do so, the refs subsystem needs
> > to be updated to pass this value across a number of different locations.
> >
> > Prepare for a future patch by introducing this plumbing now, passing
> > NULLs at top-level APIs in order to make that patch less noisy and more
> > easily readable.
>
> It might be worth mentioning in the commit message that the exclude
> patterns are supposed to be best-effort. In other words, any caller
> would still need to do manual filtering if I understand correctly. And
> while this is indeed documented via `refs_for_each_fullref_in_prefixes`
> it is quite easy to miss this important little detail.