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From: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com>
To: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Cc: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>,
	"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, "Bryan Turner" <bturner@atlassian.com>,
	"Waleed Khan" <me@waleedkhan.name>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/6] refs: excessive hook execution with packed refs
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2022 12:37:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFQ2z_M+2D-5qPXN=0FEveZ36Yq0rps3HxRkgCmiupq1DD7Kig@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YeUYNhJemN/hRG+6@ncase>

On Mon, Jan 17, 2022 at 8:18 AM Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> wrote:
> > It might make sense to not introduce a new flag namespace, but use
> > update->flags instead. You'd have to add your new flag after
> > REF_SKIP_REFNAME_VERIFICATION.
> > Bonus is that you can unittest the new flag using the existing
> > ref-store helper without extra work. (check that a transaction with &
> > without the flag works as expected.)
> >
> > other than that, looks OK to me.
>
> Thanks for your feedback!
>
> In fact the first version I had locally did exactly that. But I found
> the end version result harder to reason about, most importantly because
> it's not a 100% clear to the reader whether all callsites which delete
> refs in the packed-backend via the files-backend are adapted or whether
> any of the callsites was missing. By having the flag in a central place
> it's immediately clear that the hook won't be run at all, which is
> exactly what we want here.

If you do it like this, can you find the callsites that take update
flags (but not transaction flags), and update the signature to say
"update_flags" rather than "flags", and document appropriately?

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  reply	other threads:[~2022-01-17 11:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-12-07 10:55 [PATCH 0/6] refs: excessive hook execution with packed refs Patrick Steinhardt
2021-12-07 10:55 ` [PATCH 1/6] refs: open-code deletion of " Patrick Steinhardt
2021-12-07 10:56 ` [PATCH 2/6] refs: allow passing flags when beginning transactions Patrick Steinhardt
2021-12-07 10:56 ` [PATCH 3/6] refs: allow skipping the reference-transaction hook Patrick Steinhardt
2021-12-07 10:56 ` [PATCH 4/6] refs: demonstrate excessive execution of " Patrick Steinhardt
2021-12-07 10:56 ` [PATCH 5/6] refs: do not execute reference-transaction hook on packing refs Patrick Steinhardt
2021-12-07 10:56 ` [PATCH 6/6] refs: skip hooks when deleting uncovered packed refs Patrick Steinhardt
2022-01-07 11:55 ` [PATCH v2 0/6] refs: excessive hook execution with " Patrick Steinhardt
2022-01-07 11:55   ` [PATCH v2 1/6] refs: open-code deletion of " Patrick Steinhardt
2022-01-08  0:57     ` Junio C Hamano
2022-01-08  1:51     ` Junio C Hamano
2022-01-13  0:24     ` Junio C Hamano
2022-01-07 11:55   ` [PATCH v2 2/6] refs: allow passing flags when beginning transactions Patrick Steinhardt
2022-01-08  1:51     ` Junio C Hamano
2022-01-07 11:55   ` [PATCH v2 3/6] refs: allow skipping the reference-transaction hook Patrick Steinhardt
2022-01-07 11:55   ` [PATCH v2 4/6] refs: demonstrate excessive execution of " Patrick Steinhardt
2022-01-08  1:31     ` Junio C Hamano
2022-01-10 12:54       ` Patrick Steinhardt
2022-01-08  5:43     ` Eric Sunshine
2022-01-07 11:55   ` [PATCH v2 5/6] refs: do not execute reference-transaction hook on packing refs Patrick Steinhardt
2022-01-07 11:55   ` [PATCH v2 6/6] refs: skip hooks when deleting uncovered packed refs Patrick Steinhardt
2022-01-08  2:01     ` Junio C Hamano
2022-01-10 13:18       ` Patrick Steinhardt
2022-01-10 18:00         ` Junio C Hamano
2022-01-07 22:17   ` [PATCH v2 0/6] refs: excessive hook execution with " Junio C Hamano
2022-01-13 18:24     ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2022-01-17  7:18       ` Patrick Steinhardt
2022-01-17 11:37         ` Han-Wen Nienhuys [this message]
2022-01-24  7:13           ` Patrick Steinhardt
2022-01-13  6:11   ` [PATCH v3 " Patrick Steinhardt
2022-01-13  6:11     ` [PATCH v3 1/6] refs: extract packed_refs_delete_refs() to allow control of transaction Patrick Steinhardt
2022-01-13 12:43       ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-01-17  7:36         ` Patrick Steinhardt
2022-01-13  6:11     ` [PATCH v3 2/6] refs: allow passing flags when beginning transactions Patrick Steinhardt
2022-01-13  6:11     ` [PATCH v3 3/6] refs: allow skipping the reference-transaction hook Patrick Steinhardt
2022-01-13 13:34       ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-01-17  8:03         ` Patrick Steinhardt
2022-01-13  6:11     ` [PATCH v3 4/6] refs: demonstrate excessive execution of " Patrick Steinhardt
2022-01-13  6:11     ` [PATCH v3 5/6] refs: do not execute reference-transaction hook on packing refs Patrick Steinhardt
2022-01-13 13:00       ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-01-17  7:44         ` Patrick Steinhardt
2022-01-13  6:11     ` [PATCH v3 6/6] refs: skip hooks when deleting uncovered packed refs Patrick Steinhardt
2022-01-13 13:04       ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-01-17  7:56         ` Patrick Steinhardt
2022-01-17  8:12   ` [PATCH v4 0/6] refs: excessive hook execution with " Patrick Steinhardt
2022-01-17  8:12     ` [PATCH v4 1/6] refs: extract packed_refs_delete_refs() to allow control of transaction Patrick Steinhardt
2022-01-17  8:12     ` [PATCH v4 2/6] refs: allow passing flags when beginning transactions Patrick Steinhardt
2022-01-17  8:12     ` [PATCH v4 3/6] refs: allow skipping the reference-transaction hook Patrick Steinhardt
2022-01-17  8:12     ` [PATCH v4 4/6] refs: demonstrate excessive execution of " Patrick Steinhardt
2022-01-17  8:12     ` [PATCH v4 5/6] refs: do not execute reference-transaction hook on packing refs Patrick Steinhardt
2022-01-17  8:12     ` [PATCH v4 6/6] refs: skip hooks when deleting uncovered packed refs Patrick Steinhardt

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