Re: [PATCH 01/10] packfile: introduce 'find_kept_pack_entry()'
Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
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> So the more compelling argument, I think, is something like:
>
> - you sometimes want to know if object X is any kept packs
>
> - you can't use find_pack_entry(), because it only gives you the first
> pack it finds
>
> - you can walk over all packs and look for the object in each.
> pack-objects does this. But it's slow, because you are looking in
> packs you don't care about.
>
> - so it's helpful for the lookup to know up front which packs are
> interesting to find objects in and which are not, to avoid looking
> in the uninteresting ones