"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> Also, you might not have noticed, but my illustration patch was merely
>> using it as a hint to optimize, and if the last ref we saw was not X when
>> it is turn to handle X^{}, it simply falled back to the original logic,
>> iow, the patch never compromised the correctness.
>
> Oh, I missed that. JGit I think flat out panics and disconnects
> if the remote does this to us. What is the incentive in supporting
> a broken server with a slower client?
There is none.
I think the original logic, being written in shell, run grep in the
output, and the C code we are seeing is a literal translation of that.
In other words, I think it is simply a historical accident.
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