From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2024 18:23:18 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] refs: add referent parameter to refs_resolve_ref_unsafe
Message-ID: <xmqqv82mkk15.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <xmqq34pqlyou.fsf@gitster.g>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> "John Cai via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>  29 files changed, 64 insertions(+), 52 deletions(-)
>
> Wow, the blast radius of this thing is rather big.  Among these
> existing callers of refs_resolve_ref_unsafe(), how many of them
> will benefit from being able to pass a non NULL parameter at the end
> of the series, and more importantly, in the future to take advantage
> of the new feature possibly with a separate series?
> ...
> That way, you do not have to touch those existing callers that will
> never benefit from the new capability in the future.  You won't risk
> conflicting with in flight topics semantically, either.

The same comment applies to [3/4], but I do not want to fix the Cc: header
again, so I am replying to this message.

Thanks.