In 454ea2e4d7 (treewide: use get_all_packs, 2018-08-20) we converted existing calls to both: - get_packed_git(), as well as - the_repository->objects->packed_git , to instead use the new get_all_packs() function. In the instance that this commit addresses, there was a preceding call to prepare_packed_git(), which dates all the way back to 660c889e46 (sha1_file: add for_each iterators for loose and packed objects, 2014-10-15) when its caller (for_each_packed_object()) was first introduced. This call could have been removed in 454ea2e4d7, since get_all_packs() itself calls prepare_packed_git(). But the translation in 454ea2e4d7 was (to the best of my knowledge) a find-and-replace rather than inspecting each individual caller. Having an extra prepare_packed_git() call here is harmless, since it will notice that we have already set the 'packed_git_initialized' field and the call will be a noop. So we're only talking about a few dozen CPU cycles to set up and tear down the stack frame. But having a lone prepare_packed_git() call immediately before a call to get_all_packs() confused me, so let's remove it as redundant to avoid more confusion in the future. Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- packfile.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/packfile.c b/packfile.c index 724ce8e977..5585075023 100644 --- a/packfile.c +++ b/packfile.c @@ -2223,7 +2223,6 @@ int for_each_packed_object(struct repository *repo, each_packed_object_fn cb, int r = 0; int pack_errors = 0; - prepare_packed_git(repo); for (p = get_all_packs(repo); p; p = p->next) { if ((flags & FOR_EACH_OBJECT_LOCAL_ONLY) && !p->pack_local) continue; base-commit: 78e4bc3efc49ee4c9ec1ce14117c2e7d99999234 -- This applies on top of Karthik's series, and was something small I noticed while reading it. 2.47.0.237.gc601277f4c4