Re: [PATCH 0/8] midx: stop deduplicating info redundant with their sources

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jul 29, 2025, 18:33 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqwm7qonhq.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <20250729-b4-pks-midx-deduplicate-source-info-v1-0-748db2eda3b5@pks.im>

Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> writes:

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> Hi,
>
> this patch series is a follow up to the recent patch series that started
> to move the MIDX into its object source. It refactors the MIDX subsystem
> so that we always read and write them via an ODB source. This ultimately
> allows us to store a pointer to  the owning ODB source in the MIDX and
> thus dedup some redundant information.

"Stop deduplicating info" in the series title is probably a typo of "stop duplicating" (which is the title of the 7th step)?

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