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Wed, 16 Jul 2025 11:39:53 -0400 (EDT) From: Junio C Hamano To: Karthik Nayak Cc: Patrick Steinhardt , git@vger.kernel.org, schwab@linux-m68k.org, phillip.wood123@gmail.com Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/4] refs: selectively set prefix in the seek functions In-Reply-To: (Karthik Nayak's message of "Wed, 16 Jul 2025 07:40:30 -0700") References: <20250708-306-git-for-each-ref-pagination-v3-0-8cfba1080be4@gmail.com> <20250708-306-git-for-each-ref-pagination-v3-3-8cfba1080be4@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2025 08:39:52 -0700 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Karthik Nayak writes: > Let's say a user is iterating with a prefix set to 'refs/heads/', this > would iterate over all the refs with that prefix. But mid-way the user > realizes that they only care about 'refs/heads/feature/' prefix and they > ask the iterator to set that as the prefix. But is that user who changes their mind in the middle "seeking"? It is more like "I am abandoning the enumeration I started earlier over refs/heads/, and I want a different enumeration over refs/heads/feature/, but because I know the implementation detail that abandoning an iterator and creating another is more expensive, let me reuse the one in use to repurpose it". I wouldn't call it "seeking"; it sounds more like "resetting".