On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 03:12:11PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > * jk/warn-on-object-refname-ambiguity (2014-01-09) 6 commits > - get_sha1: drop object/refname ambiguity flag > - get_sha1: speed up ambiguous 40-hex test > - FIXUP: teach DO_FOR_EACH_NO_RECURSE to prime_ref_dir() > - refs: teach for_each_ref a flag to avoid recursion > - cat-file: fix a minor memory leak in batch_objects > - cat-file: refactor error handling of batch_objects > > Expecting a reroll. I finally got a chance to return to this one. Michael had some good comments on the refactoring that was going on in the middle patches. He ended with: Yes. Still, the code is really piling up for this one warning for the contrived eventuality that somebody wants to pass SHA-1s and branch names together in a single cat-file invocation *and* wants to pass lots of inputs at once and so is worried about performance *and* has reference names that look like SHA-1s. Otherwise we could just leave the warning disabled in this case, as now. Or we could add a new "--hashes-only" option that tells cat-file to treat all of its arguments/inputs as SHA-1s; such an option would permit an even faster code path for bulk callers. Having looked at it again, I really think it is not worth pursuing. The end goal is not that interesting, there is a lot of code introduced, and a reasonable chance of accidentally introducing regressions and/or making the code less maintainable. Keeping the existing code (which just disables the check for cat-file) is probably the sanest course of action. We can do a similar thing for "rev-list --stdin" if we want, or we can wait until somebody complains. The bottom two patches are reasonable cleanups we should keep, though (and the rest can just be discarded). -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html