Re: [PATCH] fsck: avoid looking at NULL blob->object

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Sat, Jun 09, 2018 at 10:45:15AM +0200, Duy Nguyen wrote:

> > It seems like we could refactor report() to just take the
> > object_id itself. But we pass the object pointer along to
> > a callback function, and indeed this ends up in
> > builtin/fsck.c's objreport() which does want to look at
> > other parts of the object (like the type).
> 
> And objreport() can handle OBJ_NONE well, which is the type given by
> lookup_unknown_object(). So yeah this looks good.

Actually, we know that we have some "real" type, because otherwise
lookup_blob() would not have returned NULL. In fact, we could actually
use lookup_object() here to find that object, knowing that it exists in
the hash. But IMHO that would be depending too much on how lookup_blob()
works. :)

-Peff