On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 02:54:56AM -0400, Jeff King wrote:

So the patch looks good to me as-is (and sorry for the verbose review;
we've just had enough tricky corner cases in this repack code that I
wanted to make sure I understood all the implications).

Yeah, I agree that this is probably premature optimization, but in
practice it doesn't hurt much. Copying it was definitely intentional,
and I share your general unease about changing it in this patch.

Thanks,
Taylor