[PATCH 1/4] peel_ref: use faster deref_tag_noverify

2012-10-04 Thread Jeff King
When we are asked to peel a ref to a sha1, we internally call deref_tag, which will recursively parse each tagged object until we reach a non-tag. This has the benefit that we will verify our ability to load and parse the pointed-to object. However, there is a performance downside: we may not

Re: [PATCH 1/4] peel_ref: use faster deref_tag_noverify

2012-10-04 Thread Junio C Hamano
Jeff King p...@peff.net writes: When we are asked to peel a ref to a sha1, we internally call deref_tag, which will recursively parse each tagged object until we reach a non-tag. This has the benefit that we will verify our ability to load and parse the pointed-to object. However, there is