On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 12:45:13PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Sergey Vlasov <vsu@altlinux.ru> writes:
> 
> > In all places where process() is called except the one in pull() (which
> > is executed only once) the pointer to the object is already available,
> > so pass it as the argument to process() instead of sha1 and avoid an
> > unneeded call to lookup_object_type().
> 
> Agreed, except we probably would want to pass the expected type
> to process() so that we can make sure the object is of that type,
> perhaps?

This is not needed - all parse_*_buffer() functions, which fill in
pointers to referenced objects, specify required types themselves by
using lookup_commit(), lookup_tree(), etc.; even parse_tag_buffer()
uses lookup_object_type().

The only way to get a "struct object" with an unspecified type is by
calling lookup_unknown_object() (or lookup_object_type() with NULL
type) - grep shows than nothing in GIT does this, except the pull()
function in fetch.c (which obviously does not know type of the object
to be fetched in advance).