On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 08:08:54AM +0000, Olga Telezhnaya wrote: > Remove mark_atom_in_object_info() and create same logic > in terms of ref-filter style. This one is definitely a step in the right direction. In fact, this is what I would have expected to see in the beginning. It seems like this first half of the series really would benefit from being squashed into a few commits. I.e., I'd have expected to see the whole series looking something like: - preparatory cleanup of ref-filter - teach ref-filter any new atoms (or atom options) that cat-file knows about but it doesn't - convert cat-file to use ref-filter Most of what I've seen so far is basically that second step, but strung out along a bunch of commits. Can we compact it into a few commits that all make clear forward progress (by using "rebase -i" with "squash")? -Peff