Hi Michael, On Wed, 24 Jan 2018, Michael Haggerty wrote:
> This patch series fixes the handling of empty packed-refs snapshots > (i.e., those with `snapshot->buf` and friends equal to `NULL`), partly > by changing `snapshot` to store a pointer to the start of the > post-header `packed-refs` content instead of `header_len`. It makes a > couple of other improvements as well. > > I'm not sure whether I like this approach better than the alternative > of always setting `snapshot->buf` to a non-NULL value, by allocating a > length-1 bit of RAM if necessary. The latter is less intrusive, though > even if that approach is taken, I think patches 01, 02, and 04 from > this patch series would be worthwhile improvements. Thank you for Cc:ing me on this patch series. I tried to find some time to review it, I really did, but failed. As I saw that others already had a good look at it, I will just archive the mail thread. I hope you do not mind! Ciao, Dscho
