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From: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/12] do_for_each_ref_in_arrays(): new function
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 09:29:34 +0200
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On 10/20/2011 12:39 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Is this necessary?  IOW, is the helper function usable in any context
> other than merge-iterate loose and packed refs?

Soon the packed and cached refs will each be stored hierarchically, so
iteration through the combined caches will use a call to
do_for_each_ref_in_arrays() in each subdirectory, recursively.

Michael

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