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Document the hairy gfi_unpack_entry part of fast-import
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Junio pointed out this part of fast-import wasn't very clear on
initial read, and it took some time for someone who was new to
fast-import's "dirty little tricks" to understand how this was
even working.  So a little bit of commentary in the proper place
may help future readers.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Shawn O. Pearce authored and Junio C Hamano committed Jan 21, 2008
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return 0;
}

/* All calls must be guarded by find_object() or find_mark() to
* ensure the 'struct object_entry' passed was written by this
* process instance. We unpack the entry by the offset, avoiding
* the need for the corresponding .idx file. This unpacking rule
* works because we only use OBJ_REF_DELTA within the packfiles
* created by fast-import.
*
* oe must not be NULL. Such an oe usually comes from giving
* an unknown SHA-1 to find_object() or an undefined mark to
* find_mark(). Callers must test for this condition and use
* the standard read_sha1_file() when it happens.
*
* oe->pack_id must not be MAX_PACK_ID. Such an oe is usually from
* find_mark(), where the mark was reloaded from an existing marks
* file and is referencing an object that this fast-import process
* instance did not write out to a packfile. Callers must test for
* this condition and use read_sha1_file() instead.
*/
static void *gfi_unpack_entry(
struct object_entry *oe,
unsigned long *sizep)
{
enum object_type type;
struct packed_git *p = all_packs[oe->pack_id];
if (p == pack_data && p->pack_size < (pack_size + 20)) {
/* The object is stored in the packfile we are writing to
* and we have modified it since the last time we scanned
* back to read a previously written object. If an old
* window covered [p->pack_size, p->pack_size + 20) its
* data is stale and is not valid. Closing all windows
* and updating the packfile length ensures we can read
* the newly written data.
*/
close_pack_windows(p);

/* We have to offer 20 bytes additional on the end of
* the packfile as the core unpacker code assumes the
* footer is present at the file end and must promise
* at least 20 bytes within any window it maps. But
* we don't actually create the footer here.
*/
p->pack_size = pack_size + 20;
}
return unpack_entry(p, oe->offset, &type, sizep);
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