From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2019 18:14:37 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 1/3] ref-filter: add worktreepath atom
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In-Reply-To: <CAC05386a+FZP8hGawYsfZrmA--JuZBqi_aop7202JQnJEfKyJg@mail.gmail.com>

Nickolai Belakovski <nbelakovski@gmail.com> writes:

> There's been a little back and forth on it, but my understanding is
> that using the colon separator bypasses the caching mechanism in the
> atoms, so every instance of "worktree:path" in a format string would
> require a lookup.

Would that be a problem, though?  You now have a singleton hashmap
that is a file-scope global not tied to any particular atom, so...?