Re: [PATCH 01/12] repack_without_ref(): split list curation and entry writing

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On 06/12/2013 01:38 PM, Jeff King wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 11:48:21PM +0200, Michael Haggerty wrote:
> 
>> Split repack_without_ref() into multiple passes:
>>
>> * collect the list of refnames that should be deleted from packed_refs
>>
>> * delete those refnames from the cache
>>
>> * write the remainder to the packed-refs file
>>
>> The purpose of this change is to make the "write the remainder" part
>> reusable.
> 
> It took me several reads to figure out what was going on here, because I
> did not see the deleted ref passed to the list of items to delete from
> packed_refs. The part I was missing is something like:
> 
>   The repack_without_ref() function first removes the deleted ref from
>   the internal packed-refs list, then writes the packed-refs list to
>   disk, omitting any broken or stale entries. This patch splits that
>   second step into multiple passes:
> 
>      ...
> 
> Is that accurate?

Yes.  You are right that I should make that clearer.

Thanks,
Michael

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