Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] rev-list: add commit object support in `--missing` option

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2023 10:45:31 -0700

Karthik Nayak <[email-masked]> writes:

> Was trying to use bit number 12, which coincides METAINFO_SHOWN in
> builtin/blame.c.
> From skimming over the code, METAINFO_SHOWN is used only within
> blame.c and there
> should not be collisions here since blame.c doesn't set the
> do_not_die_on_missing_objects bit
> either.

Thanks for researching.  It sounds like it may be a better bit to
steal than the one used by the commit-graph, as long as there is no
reason to expect that blame may want to work in a corrupt repository
with missing objects, but when it happens, we may regret the
decision we are making here.

Thanks.