Re: [PATCH] Fix premature free of ref_lists while writing temporary refs to file

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On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, Johan Herland wrote:
> 
> > We cannot call write_ref_sha1() from within a for_each_ref() callback, 
> > since it will free() the ref_list that the for_each_ref() is currently 
> > traversing.
> > 
> > Therefore rewrite setup_tmp_ref() to not call write_ref_sha1(), as 
> > already hinted at in a comment.
> 
> I guess the reason was to use a much of an API as possible.
> 
> If you already avoid that, why not write into .git/packed-refs directly?

Actually, it looks to me like the really right thing to do is tell 
for_each_ref() to also include these refs temporarily, and not actually 
write them to disk, read them back, and then delete them.

	-Daniel
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