This is a rif on Duy's oldish patch series [1]. I started reviewing his patch series, but found that some of his patches did multiple things, making it harder to review. I started pulling it apart into smaller changes to aid my review, and I guess I got carried away :-/ As far as I know, Duy isn't actively working on this, so I hope my reroll is not unwelcome. As far as I can tell, Duy's patch series was correct aside from a couple of minor cosmetic blemishes [2]. So if you want to accept Duy's original patch series, I hereby endorse it. This version does the following things beyond Duy's original: * Split commits up into smaller pieces. * Get rid of the MAXREFLEN limitation. * Rename the parse_ref() parameter from "ref" to "refname". * Inline resolve_gitlink_packed_ref() and handle_missing_loose_ref(). * Invert the "if" statement for dealing with symbolic references in parse_ref() to make the logic flow more linear. * Change a couple of "while" loops to "do..while". * Change resolve_refdup() to return strbuf_detach(&buf, NULL) instead of buf.buf directly (as suggested by Eric Sunshine). I retained Duy as author on commits that are derived straightforwardly from his. I hope I haven't broken any of them. I am calling this patch series v2 because I propose it as a successor to Duy's version. [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/254203/focus=254203 [2] Aside from the couple of things pointed out on the mailing list, * The parse_ref() parameter should be named "refname" instead of "ref", for consistency with other refs code. * The local variable "ref = result->buf" in resolve_ref() just obscures things and should be inlined. Michael Haggerty (5): resolve_ref_unsafe(): reverse the logic of the symref conditional handle_missing_loose_ref(): inline function resolve_gitlink_ref_recursive(): drop arbitrary refname length limit resove_gitlink_packed_ref(): inline function resolve_gitlink_ref(): remove redundant test Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy (6): strbuf_read_file(): preserve errno on failure handle_missing_loose_ref(): return an int resolve_ref_unsafe(): use skip_prefix() to skip over "ref:" refs.c: refactor resolve_ref_unsafe() to use strbuf internally refs.c: move ref parsing code out of resolve_ref() refs.c: rewrite resolve_gitlink_ref() to use parse_ref() cache.h | 12 +++ refs.c | 371 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------------------- strbuf.c | 7 +- 3 files changed, 200 insertions(+), 190 deletions(-) -- 2.1.1 -- 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