Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > So the more compelling argument, I think, is something like: > > - you sometimes want to know if object X is any kept packs > > - you can't use find_pack_entry(), because it only gives you the first > pack it finds > > - you can walk over all packs and look for the object in each. > pack-objects does this. But it's slow, because you are looking in > packs you don't care about. > > - so it's helpful for the lookup to know up front which packs are > interesting to find objects in and which are not, to avoid looking > in the uninteresting ones That does make sense.
