From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 10:15:07 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Introduce for_each_recent_reflog_ent().
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0901201114250.3586@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <7vpriimr93.fsf_-_@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Hi,

On Mon, 19 Jan 2009, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> This can be used to scan only the last few kilobytes of a reflog, as a 
> cheap optimization when the data you are looking for is likely to be 
> found near the end of it.  The caller is expected to fall back to the 
> full scan if that is not the case.

FWIW I really like it, as it works around mmap() nicely.

Ciao,
Dscho