Re: [RFC PATCH 05/10] pack-bitmap: don't rely on bitmap_git->reuse_objects

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On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 1:44 AM Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > As we now allocate 2 more words than necessary for each
> > bitmap to serve as marks telling us that we can stop
> > iterating over the words, we don't need to rely on
> > bitmap_git->reuse_objects to stop iterating over the words.
>
> As Peff states [1], this justification is probably incorrect as well.
> The actual justification seems to be that we will no longer compute
> reuse_objects (in a future patch), so we cannot rely on it anymore to
> terminate the loop early; we have to iterate to the end.
>
> [1] https://public-inbox.org/git/20191002155721.GD6116@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

Ok, thanks! I will change the description.



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