Re: [PATCH 2/3] setup: have the_repository use the_index
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
- Date
- Jul 12, 2017, 21:40 UTC
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Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:
> > All that said, I don't have a strong opinion on this. Both the 1-word > approach (a pointer) and 24-word approach (embedding) are tolerable > and there are reasons to prefer each.
I do not care too much about 24-word wastage. If this were not "a pointer pretending to be embedded object", the fix in 1/3 wouldn't have been necessary. I am worried about this being an invitations for such unnecesasry bugs.