Until recently, get_remote_heads only knew how to read refs
from a file descriptor. To hack around this, we spawned a
thread (or forked a process) to write the buffer back to us.
Now that we can just pass it our buffer directly, we don't
have to use this hack anymore.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King
Jeff King wrote:
I don't know that this code was hurting anything, but it has always
struck me as ugly and a possible source of error. And now it's gone.
Heh. Belongs in the commit message, presumably.
I don't think the async procedure was very harmful, but it's nice to
avoid the cost of a
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