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From: Julius Plenz <plenz@cis•fu-berlin.de>
To: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail•com>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] clean cached refs when calling set_git_dir()
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 17:09:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110310160948.GL15960@plenz.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTik1HMQqKc98AF-6DTGJgrk8HOjZTimGnK-XBv-q@mail.gmail.com>

Hi!

* Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail•com> [2011-03-10 17:00]:
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 10:19 PM, Julius Plenz <plenz@cis•fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> > If you use libgit.a to perform reference resolutions on two or more
> > repositories that contain packed refs, cached_refs will store the packed
> > refs for the first repository to contain a packed-refs file only.
> 
> If you use libgit.a to do anything on more than one repository, you
> get a lot more messed up that just that. Spawning a new process or
> accessing with libgit2 may be safer. Why do you want to do that in the
> first place?

I was working on the cgit repository browser, where you have to peek
into several repositories to create the overview page. Since cgit
links to libgit.a I fixed the bug there. Not sure if that's the proper
way to do it, though...

Julius

  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-10 16:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-10 15:19 [PATCH] clean cached refs when calling set_git_dir() Julius Plenz
2011-03-10 15:59 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-03-10 16:09   ` Julius Plenz [this message]
2011-03-10 17:14     ` Lars Hjemli

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