From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2020 20:34:03 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/23] ewah: implement bitmap_or()
Message-ID: <xmqq3611qgg4.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <dce9b6da0ad38da0a92b39d780d7b56f83d52950.1605123652.git.me@ttaylorr.com>

Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> writes:

> From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
>
> We have a function to bitwise-OR an ewah into an uncompressed bitmap,
> but not to OR two uncompressed bitmaps. Let's add it.
>
> Interestingly, we have a public header declaration going back to
> e1273106f6 (ewah: compressed bitmap implementation, 2013-11-14), but the
> function was never implemented.

So we have had decl, no impl, but it did not matter because there
was no user?  Presumably we will see a real user soon in the series
;-)