Michael Haggerty <mhagger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> * Since v1, branch `bc/object-id` has been merged to `next`, and it
> has lots of conflicts with these changes. So I rebased this branch
> onto a merge of `master` and `bc/object-id`. (I hope this makes
> Junio's job easier.) This unfortunately causes a bit of tbdiff noise
> between v1 and v2.
Heh, that gives me an excellent excuse to procrastinate, as I am
planning to merge that topic to 'master' by the end of this week ;-)
Jokes aside...
> * Patch [01/25]: in t3600, register the `test_when_finished` command
> before executing `chmod a-w`.
>
> * Patch [04/25] (new patch): convert a few `die("internal error: ...")`
> to `die("BUG: ...")`.
>
> * Patch [05/25]: Use `strlen()` rather than `memchr()` to check the
> trim length, and `die()` rather than skipping if it is longer than
> the reference name.
>
> * Patch [08/25]: Name the log message arguments `msg` for consistency
> with existing code.
>
> * Patch [10/25]: Rename the new member from `packlock` to
> `packed_refs_lock`.
>
> * Patch [13/25] (new patch): Move the check for valid
> `transaction->state` from `files_transaction_commit()` to
> `ref_transaction_commit()`.
All of these feel familiar ;-)
> * Patch [14/25]:
>
> * Add more sanity checks of `transaction->state`.
>
> * Don't add `ref_transaction_finish()` to the public API. Instead,
> teach `ref_transaction_commit()` to do the right thing whether or
> not `ref_transaction_prepare()` has been called.
>
> * Add and improve docstrings.
>
> * Allow `ref_transaction_abort()` to be called even before
> `ref_transaction_prepare()` (in which case it just calls
> `ref_transaction_free()`).
>
> * Lots of improvements to commit messages and comments, mostly to
> clarify points that reviewers asked about.
Overall this looked like quite a quality work to me.
> These changes (along with the merge commit that they are based on) are
> also available as branch `packed-ref-store-prep` in my GitHub fork
> [2]. If you'd like to see a preview of the rest of the changes (which
> works but is not yet polished), checkout the `mmap-packed-refs` branch
> from the same place.
Thanks.