Re: [PATCH] Enhance unpack-objects for extracting large objects

On Fri, 25 May 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

"Dana How" [off-list ref] writes:

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 * You already have the size here, so if min_blob_size is set
   and the size is larger, you do not even have to call
   write_sha1_file() at all.

The way I read the code,  it looks like unpack-objects needs
the last argument always to be initialized with the SHA-1 computed
from the object contents.  Therefore I always need to call
write_sha1_file(),  even if I don't want it to write anything.

Ah, that is what I missed.

There is a separate function to only hash, named (surprisingly)
"hash_sha1_file().  Maybe you can teach the caller's "don't
write it out" codepath to call it.

That would be clearer indeed.


Nicolas