Refactoring the tag object; Introducing soft references (softrefs); Git 'notes' (take 2) · Johan Herland <hidden> · 2016-06-15
[PATCH 0/6] Refactor the tag object · Johan Herland <hidden> · 2016-06-15
[PATCH 1/6] Refactor git tag objects; make "tag" header optional; introduce new optional "keywords" header · Johan Herland <hidden> · 2016-06-15
Re: [PATCH 1/6] Refactor git tag objects; make "tag" header optional; introduce new optional "keywords" header · Matthias Lederhofer <hidden> · 2016-06-15
Re: [PATCH 1/6] Refactor git tag objects; make "tag" header optional; introduce new optional "keywords" header · Johan Herland <hidden> · 2016-06-15
[PATCH 2/6] git-show: When showing tag objects with no tag name, show tag object's SHA1 instead of an empty string · Johan Herland <hidden> · 2016-06-15
[PATCH 3/6] git-fsck: Do thorough verification of tag objects. · Johan Herland <hidden> · 2016-06-15
Re: [PATCH 3/6] git-fsck: Do thorough verification of tag objects. · Matthias Lederhofer <hidden> · 2016-06-15
Re: [PATCH 3/6] git-fsck: Do thorough verification of tag objects. · Johan Herland <hidden> · 2016-06-15
[PATCH 4/6] Documentation/git-mktag: Document the changes in tag object structure · Johan Herland <hidden> · 2016-06-15
[PATCH 5/6] git-mktag tests: Fix and expand the mktag tests according to the new tag object structure · Johan Herland <hidden> · 2016-06-15
[PATCH 6/6] Add fsck_verify_ref_to_tag_object() to verify that refname matches name stored in tag object · Johan Herland <hidden> · 2016-06-15
[PATCH] Fix bug in tag parsing when thorough verification was in effect · Johan Herland <hidden> · 2016-06-15
[PATCH 0/7] Introduce soft references (softrefs) · Johan Herland <hidden> · 2016-06-15
[PATCH 1/7] Softrefs: Add softrefs header file with API documentation · Johan Herland <hidden> · 2016-06-15
Re: [PATCH 1/7] Softrefs: Add softrefs header file with API documentation · Johannes Schindelin <hidden> · 2016-06-15
Re: [PATCH 1/7] Softrefs: Add softrefs header file with API documentation · Johan Herland <hidden> · 2016-06-15
Re: [PATCH 1/7] Softrefs: Add softrefs header file with API documentation · Jakub Narebski <hidden> · 2016-06-15
[PATCH] Teach git-gc to merge unsorted softrefs · Johan Herland <hidden> · 2016-06-15
[PATCH 2/7] Softrefs: Add implementation of softrefs API · Johan Herland <hidden> · 2016-06-15
[PATCH 3/7] Softrefs: Add git-softref, a builtin command for adding, listing and administering softrefs · Johan Herland <hidden> · 2016-06-15
[PATCH 4/7] Softrefs: Add manual page documenting git-softref and softrefs subsystem in general · Johan Herland <hidden> · 2016-06-15
[PATCH 5/7] Softrefs: Add testcases for basic softrefs behaviour · Johan Herland <hidden> · 2016-06-15
[PATCH 6/7] Softrefs: Administrivia associated with softrefs subsystem and git-softref builtin · Johan Herland <hidden> · 2016-06-15
[PATCH 7/7] Teach git-mktag to register softrefs for all tag objects · Johan Herland <hidden> · 2016-06-15
[PATCH] Change softrefs file format from text (82 bytes per entry) to binary (40 bytes per entry) · Johan Herland <hidden> · 2016-06-15
Re: [PATCH] Change softrefs file format from text (82 bytes per entry) to binary (40 bytes per entry) · Johannes Schindelin <hidden> · 2016-06-15
Re: [PATCH] Change softrefs file format from text (82 bytes per entry) to binary (40 bytes per entry) · Johan Herland <hidden> · 2016-06-15
Re: Refactoring the tag object; Introducing soft references (softrefs); Git 'notes' (take 2) · Steven Grimm <hidden> · 2016-06-15
Re: Refactoring the tag object; Introducing soft references (softrefs); Git 'notes' (take 2) · Johan Herland <hidden> · 2016-06-15
Re: Refactoring the tag object; Introducing soft references (softrefs); Git 'notes' (take 2) · Pierre Habouzit <hidden> · 2016-06-15
Re: Refactoring the tag object; Introducing soft references (softrefs); Git 'notes' (take 2) · Johan Herland <hidden> · 2016-06-15
Re: Refactoring the tag object; Introducing soft references (softrefs); Git 'notes' (take 2) · Steven Grimm <hidden> · 2016-06-15

Re: [PATCH 1/7] Softrefs: Add softrefs header file with API documentation

From: Jakub Narebski <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:43:15

Johan Herland wrote:

+ * When softrefs are created (by calling add_softref()/add_softrefs()), they
+ * are appended to .git/softrefs.unsorted. When .git/softrefs.unsorted reach a
+ * certain number of entries (determined by MAX_UNSORTED_ENTRIES), all the
+ * entries in .git/softrefs.unsorted are merged into .git/softrefs.sorted.

Perhaps git-gc should also sort softrefs (if it doesn't do it yet)?
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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