Re: What's cooking in git.git (Jan 2025, #05; Fri, 17)

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jan 21, 2025, 19:17 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqfrlc0yem.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <20250119125526.GA1540196@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> I was thinking to just leave the offending code untouched in the
> individual commands if we went this route.

Ah, I see. Yeah, then we have a subtle and possibly brittle code paths that are well contained inside two functions.

> But anyway, I'll prepare a version going the other get_be32() direction.

Thanks.  That probably results in better code with fewer magic.

THanks.

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