On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 12:14:11PM +0100, Michael Haggerty wrote: > Store a pointer to the start of the actual references within the > `packed-refs` contents rather than storing the length of the header. > This is more convenient for most users of this field.
This makes sense. It means that the "start" pointer needs to be invalidated if "buf" ever changes. But that was pretty much the case already with "header_len" (because "buf" is not a heap buffer that we might realloc; if it ever changes it is because we re-read the file, and we would have to re-parse the header length anyway). -Peff
