Re: [PATCHv3 3/7] show: honor --textconv for blobs

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 11:04:01AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> One thing to notice is that those accessing rev->pending before
> calling prepare_revision_walk(), as opposed to those receiving
> objects in rev->commits via get_revision(), are the only ones that
> care about the context and wants to act differently depending on
> where these came from and how they were specified.
> 
> That suggests at least two possibilities to me:
> 
>  - Perhaps we can place the context in rev->pending and clear them
>    when prepare_revision_walk() moves them to rev->commits, without
>    introducing rev->keep_object_context?
> 
>  - Perhaps instead of extending object-array, we can move this kind
>    of information to rev_cmdline and enrich that structure?

Without looking too closely to see whether it is feasible, I would think
the latter would end up being much more elegant, since I think it
already deals with some allocation issues already.

-Peff