On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 12:14:10PM +0100, Michael Haggerty wrote: > This patch series fixes the handling of empty packed-refs snapshots > (i.e., those with `snapshot->buf` and friends equal to `NULL`), partly > by changing `snapshot` to store a pointer to the start of the > post-header `packed-refs` content instead of `header_len`. It makes a > couple of other improvements as well. > > I'm not sure whether I like this approach better than the alternative > of always setting `snapshot->buf` to a non-NULL value, by allocating a > length-1 bit of RAM if necessary. The latter is less intrusive, though > even if that approach is taken, I think patches 01, 02, and 04 from > this patch series would be worthwhile improvements. This looks good to me. I agree that 1, 2, and 4 are improvements regardless (but 4 as it is now depends on 3, right?). I don't have a strong opinion between this series and the other options presented. It's probably not worth agonizing over, so we should pick one and move on. -Peff
