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From:   Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To:     =?utf-8?B?w4Z2YXIgQXJuZmrDtnLDsA==?= Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Cc:     git@vger.kernel.org, Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 2/4] ref-filter API user: add and use a
 ref_sorting_release()
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=C3=86var Arnfj=C3=B6r=C3=B0 Bjarmason  <avarab@gmail.com> writes:

> +void ref_sorting_release(struct ref_sorting *sorting)
> +{
> +	struct ref_sorting *next =3D sorting->next;
> +	if (next)
> +	       ref_sorting_release(next);
> +	free(sorting);
> +}

Looks like a deep recursion that can be turned into an iteration
fairly easily?  I guess it does not matter as long as we won't deal
with thousands of sort keys...