From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Cc: Jayesh Daga via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org, Justin Tobler <jltobler@gmail.com>,
Ayush Chandekar <ayu.chandekar@gmail.com>,
Siddharth Asthana <siddharthasthana31@gmail.com>,
Jayesh Daga <jayeshdaga99@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] unpack-trees: use explicit repository in trace2 calls
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2026 13:27:57 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqjyurzquq.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqy0j82ex8.fsf@gitster.g> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Tue, 31 Mar 2026 08:32:03 -0700")
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
> Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> writes:
>
>> The changes in `unpack_trees()` are a bit misleading -- while it reads
>> as if we don't use `the_repository` anymore, we still do because the
>> function starts with:
>>
>> int unpack_trees(unsigned len, struct tree_desc *t, struct unpack_trees_options *o)
>> {
>> struct repository *repo = the_repository;
>>
>> So would it make sense to maybe have a separate patch where we inject a
>> repository as a parameter to `unpack_trees()`?
>
> We can see that "struct unpack_trees_options" is rich enough in the
> merge context that it would be a natural place to have it unless it
> is already tehre.
>
> In fact, o->dst_index->repo should probably be what you want, and
> because it would be insane to start from an index in a repo and
> store the resulting updated index in another repo, there probably
> needs an assert(o->dst_index->repo == o->src_index->repo) somewhere.
Actually, assert(dst_index->repo == src_index->repo) is probably not
what we want, as dst_index can legitimately be NULL, even since
34110cd4 (Make 'unpack_trees()' have a separate source and
destination index, 2008-03-06) introduced srparete src/dst indices
to unpack_trees() API.
We will always unpack into our own internal index, but we will take the
source from wherever specified, and we will optionally write the result
to a specified index (optionally, because not everybody even _wants_ any
result: the index diffing really wants to just walk the tree and index
in parallel).
So o->src_index->repo is what we want in this case, I think.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-31 20:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-30 20:13 [PATCH] unpack-trees: use explicit repository in trace2 calls Jayesh Daga via GitGitGadget
2026-03-31 5:31 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2026-03-31 15:32 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-03-31 20:27 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2026-03-31 15:34 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] " Jayesh Daga via GitGitGadget
2026-03-31 15:34 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] unpack-trees: use repository from index instead of global Jayesh Daga via GitGitGadget
2026-03-31 15:34 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] " Jayesh Daga via GitGitGadget
2026-03-31 21:35 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] unpack-trees: use explicit repository in trace2 calls Junio C Hamano
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