Patrick Steinhardt <ps@xxxxxx> writes: > The "files" backend has implemented special logic when committing > the first transactions in an otherwise empty ref store: instead of > writing all refs as separate loose files, it instead knows to write them > all into a "packed-refs" file directly. This is significantly more > efficient than having to write each of the refs as separate "loose" ref. > > The only user of this optimization is git-clone(1), which only uses this > mechanism to write regular refs. Consequently, the implementation does > not know how to handle both symbolic and root refs. While fine in the > context of git-clone(1), this keeps us from using the mechanism in more > cases. > > Adapt the logic to also support symbolic and root refs by using a second > transaction that we use for all of the refs that need to be written as > loose refs. > The patch looks good. I was wondering if another way would be to just add symref and root ref support to packed-refs. But that might be a bigger undertaking than what we're doing here. But thinking about it, seems like we can do that in a backwards compatible way too. The changes in this patch look good. [snip]
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