Re: [PATCH 0/12] a rabbit hole of update-server-info fixes

> This patch series started with patch 12: I just wanted to drop the
> unused "force" parameter from update_info_refs().
>
> But that made me look at its sibling update_info_packs(), and whether it
> ...
> And here we are. I present them here in reverse rabbit-hole order (which
> is also roughly important fixes first, and minor cleanups last). The
> individual chunks are mostly independent, but the server-info cleanups
> rely on the shared pack_basename() helper added as part of the midx fix.

>
>   [01/12]: t5319: fix bogus cat-file argument
>   [02/12]: t5319: drop useless --buffer from cat-file
>   [03/12]: packfile: factor out .pack to .idx name conversion
>   [04/12]: packfile: check midx coverage with .idx rather than .pack
>   [05/12]: http: simplify parsing of remote objects/info/packs
>   [06/12]: server-info: fix blind pointer arithmetic
>   [07/12]: server-info: simplify cleanup in parse_pack_def()
>   [08/12]: server-info: use strbuf to read old info/packs file
>   [09/12]: server-info: drop nr_alloc struct member
>   [10/12]: packfile.h: drop extern from function declarations
>   [11/12]: server-info: drop objdirlen pointer arithmetic
>   [12/12]: update_info_refs(): drop unused force parameter
>
>  http.c                      | 35 ++++++---------
>  packfile.c                  | 31 ++++++++++---
>  packfile.h                  | 86 ++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
>  server-info.c               | 57 +++++++++++-------------
>  t/t5319-multi-pack-index.sh | 29 ++++++++++---
>  5 files changed, 132 insertions(+), 106 deletions(-)
>
> -Peff