On 04/15/2013 07:38 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Michael Haggerty <mhag...@alum.mit.edu> writes:
> 
>> The old version was inconsistent: when a reference was
>> REF_KNOWS_PEELED but with a null peeled value, it returned non-zero
>> for the current reference but zero for other references.  Change the
>> behavior for non-current references to match that of current_ref,
>> which is what callers expect.  Document the behavior.
>>
>> Current callers did not trigger the previously-buggy behavior.
> 
> Is that because we were lucky by codeflow, or is it just that we
> didn't have a testcase to trigger the behaviour?

Existing callers only called peel_ref() from within a for_each_ref-style
iteration and only for the current ref.  Therefore the buggy code path
was impossible to reach.

I will note that in the commit message.

Michael

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