Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] sha1-file: support OBJECT_INFO_FOR_PREFETCH

[Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>]

Hi Jonathan,

On Fri, 29 Mar 2019, Jonathan Tan wrote:

> Teach oid_object_info_extended() to support a new flag that inhibits
> fetching of missing objects. This is equivalent to setting
> fetch_is_missing to 0, calling oid_object_info_extended(), then setting
> fetch_if_missing to whatever it was before. Update unpack-trees.c to use
> this new flag instead of repeatedly setting fetch_if_missing.
>
> This new flag complicates things slightly in that there are now 2 ways
> to do the same thing.

Just a note that I disagree with the latter part of the sentence: those
are not 2 ways of doing the same thing, but they are two switches that
essentially both have to be flipped to "on". They're just multiple gates.

I do not ask you to rephrase it, merely registering a different opinion.

The patch looks good, I especially like the post-image of
`check_updates()`, which looks much nicer (from my perspective, of
course).

Thanks,
Dscho