Re: [RFC/PATCH 2/4] revert: refactor code into a do_pick_commit() function

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:
> Christian Couder wrote:

>> -static int revert_or_cherry_pick(int argc, const char **argv)
>> +static int do_pick_commit()
>>  {
>>        unsigned char head[20];
>>        struct commit *base, *next, *parent;
>
> Is there a better way to do this instead of allocating memory for each
> commit? When you cherry pick a lot of commits, it might make sense to
> use a shared memory pool.

In fact they do belong to a pool, as far as I can tell.

  lookup_commit_reference ->
   lookup_commit_reference_gently ->
    parse_object ->
     parse_object_buffer ->
      lookup_commit ->
       lookup_object (or create_object, alloc_commit_node)

alloc_commit_node is defined in alloc.c to draw from a growing array
of fixed-size, never-freed commit objects.

Hope that helps.
Jonathan