From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2019 03:49:41 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] get_oid(): when an object was not found, try harder
Message-ID: <xmqq8sxiaze2.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <20190314022245.GA1414@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

>>  1. is reprepare_packed_git() a bit too heavy-weight, if the only
>>     thing we are addressing is the loose-object cache going stale?
>
> It's not the only thing we are addressing. :)
>
> Try this:

Yes, I knew about repacking.  I was alluding to the overly heavy
reference to loose-object-cache in the log message ;-).

>>  2. is there a way to cleanly avoid the three-line duplicate?
>
> Yeah, as you noted, I think the boilerplate is worse than the
> duplication. The most readable alternative to me is a separate function,
> like:
> ...
> But what I find particularly ugly is not just that it's more lines, but
> that the assumptions and outputs of do_get_short_oid() aren't
> particularly clear.

Yeah, exactly.