Re: [PATCH 07/11] packfile: warn people away from parse_packed_git()

[Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>]

On Fri, Oct 25, 2024 at 03:02:22AM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
> With a name like parse_packed_git(), you might think it's the right way
> to access a local pack index and its associated objects. But not so!
> It's a one-off used by the dumb-http code to access pack idx files we've
> downloaded from the remote, but whose packs we might not have.
>
> There's only one caller left for this function, and ideally we'd drop it
> completely and just inline it there. But that would require exposing
> other internals from packfile.[ch], like alloc_packed_git() and
> check_packed_git_idx().
>
> So let's leave it be for now, and just warn people that it's probably
> not what they're looking for. Perhaps in the long run if we eventually
> drop dumb-http support, we can remove the function entirely then.

That seems like a good step and the right place to stop rather than
exposing more internals from packfile.c. Nicely done.

Thanks,
Taylor