Re: [PATCH v5 5/5] builtin/merge-tree.c: implement support for `--write-pack`

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Nov 14, 2023, 01:40 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqpm0d1591.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <20231113220546.GB2065691@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> I posted an alternative in response to Elijah; the general idea being to
> allow the usual object-lookup code to access the in-progress pack. That
> would keep us limited to a single pack.

If such a mechanism is done in a generic way, would we be able to simplify fast-import a lot, I wonder? IIRC, it had quite a lot of code to remember what it has written to its output to work around the exact issue your alternative tries to solve. In fact, maybe we could make fast-import a thin wrapper around the bulk checkin infrastructure?

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