Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/12] reducing resource usage of for_each_alternate_ref

From: Brandon Williams <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 17:33:41 -0800

On 01/23, Jeff King wrote:
> 
> A brief overview of the patches:
> 
>   [01/12]: for_each_alternate_ref: handle failure from real_pathdup()
>   [02/12]: for_each_alternate_ref: stop trimming trailing slashes
>   [03/12]: for_each_alternate_ref: use strbuf for path allocation
> 
>     Bugfixes and cleanups (the first one is actually a recent-ish
>     regression).

Which is most likely my fault, Sorry! :)

I think the old behavior was to die and not return NULL.

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Brandon Williams