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From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] sequencer: sequencer state is useless without todo
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:47:43 +0530
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Hi,

Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Just use a sane idiom. =C2=A0Which means: as few git_path() values in
> flight at a time as possible.

Makes sense, thanks.

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Or perhaps http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/184=
963/focus=3D185436

I noticed that sha1_to_hex() also operates like this.  The
resolve_ref() function is really important, but using the same
technique for these tiny functions is probably an overkill; something
in `Documentation/technical` perhaps?

Thanks.

-- Ram