Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > IIUC, the most notable difference between this round and the > previous one is that now we are no longer buffering more than one > packet worth of data because we let the stdio to accumulate them. > I was a bit surprised that we still want to have a strbuf inside > this structure (which is there only because it wants to persist > during the whole conversation with the other side). > > Ahh, sorry, scratch that. I do remember the discussion/patch that > it was hurting to make calls to strbuf-init/strbuf-release once per > ref, and it is an easy way to have the structure here to reuse it. But that means this majorly overlaps what Patrick is already doing in his ps/ls-refs-strbuf-optim topic. Perhaps these should be rebased on top of that topic branch, I wonder?
