Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/9] treewide: use get_all_packs

From: Derrick Stolee <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2018 09:56:42 -0400

On 8/20/2018 6:01 PM, Stefan Beller wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 9:52 AM Derrick Stolee <[email-masked]> wrote:
>> There are many places in the codebase that want to iterate over
>> all packfiles known to Git. The purposes are wide-ranging, and
>> those that can take advantage of the multi-pack-index already
>> do. So, use get_all_packs() instead of get_packed_git() to be
>> sure we are iterating over all packfiles.
> So get_packed_git shouold not be used any further?
> Do we want to annotate it as deprecated, to be deleted
> in the future? Or even remove it as part of this series
> (that might be an issue with other series in flight).

Perhaps the right thing to do would be to put a big warning over the 
definition to say "only use this if you really don't want 
get_all_packs()" or something. The reason I didn't remove it from 
packfile.h is that it is used in sha1-name.c alongside 
get_multi_pack_index() (so making it 'static' would be incorrect).