Re: [PATCH 1/4] odb: store ODB source in `struct odb_transaction`

> Justin Tobler <jltobler@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > Interestingly, it looks like there are only three users of odb-tmpdir:
> > remerge-diffs, git-recieve-pack, and ODB transactions. All of these
> > use-cases seems like a reasonble fit to create an ODB transaction
> > instead of managing the tmpdir directly. In the case of remerge-diffs
> > the transaction would need to always be aborted. If this is done, then a
> > tmpdir could become an internal detail of the ODB transaction for the
> > files backend.
> 
> ;-)  I agree 100%.
> 
> "Prepare to create objects that may be undone in the end", "Now make
> these objects we created so far as parmanent part of the object
> store", "Reject those objects we created so far as the transaction
> created them is being aborted" are requests at the right abstraction
> level.  "Give me a temporary object directory" is not.