Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > So instead, we attempt to resolve HEAD fully to get the old > sha1, and only if that fails do we fallback to a > non-recursive resolution. We lose nothing to the fallback, > since we know the ref cannot be resolved, and thus we have > no old sha1 in the first place. And we still get the benefit > of the d/f-checking for the symref itself. > > This does mean an extra round of filesystem lookups in some > cases, but they should be rare. It only kicks in with > REF_NODEREF, and then only when the existing ref cannot be > resolved. Makes perfect sense to me. Thanks. -- 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