On Wed, Oct 16, 2024 at 08:00:30AM +0200, Patrick Steinhardt wrote: > But there is one exception here where we _can_ get away with sorting > refs while streaming: ref backends sort references returned by their > iterators in lexicographic order. So if the following conditions are all > true we can do iterative streaming: > > - The caller uses at most a single name pattern. Otherwise we'd have > to sort results from multiple invocations of the iterator. > > - There must be at most a single sorting specification, as otherwise > we're not using plain lexicographic ordering. > > - The sorting specification must use the "refname". > > - The sorting specification must not be using any flags, like > case-insensitive sorting. Perhaps a niche case, but what about ancient packed-refs files that were written before the 'sorted' capability was introduced? Thanks, Taylor
