Re: [PATCH 09/16] prune: factor out loose-object directory traversal

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Oct 3, 2014, 22:19 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqoatskd8u.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20141003202943.GI16293@peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> Prune has to walk $GIT_DIR/objects/?? in order to find the
> set of loose objects to prune. Other parts of the code
> (e.g., count-objects) want to do the same. Let's factor it
> out into a reusable for_each-style function.

Doesn't fsck also look at these as well? I recall that we also have a "sort by inum" trick employed there. Would it also be applicable to these two callers?

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