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    commit: drop uses of get_cached_commit_buffer() · 7fa31b64
    Jeff King authored and Junio C Hamano's avatar Junio C Hamano committed
    The "--show-all" revision option shows UNINTERESTING
    commits. Some of these commits may be unparsed when we try
    to show them (since we may or may not need to walk their
    parents to fulfill the request).
    
    Commit 3131b713 (Add "--show-all" revision walker flag for
    debugging, 2008-02-09) resolved this by just skipping
    pretty-printing for commits without their object contents
    cached, saying:
    
      Because we now end up listing commits we may not even have been parsed
      at all "show_log" and "show_commit" need to protect against commits
      that don't have a commit buffer entry.
    
    That was the easy fix to avoid the pretty-printer segfaulting,
    but:
    
      1. It doesn't work for all formats. E.g., --oneline
         prints the oid for each such commit but not a trailing
         newline, leading to jumbled output.
    
      2. It only affects some commits, depending on whether we
         happened to parse them or not (so if they were at the
         tip of an UNINTERESTING starting point, or if we
         happened to traverse over them, you'd see more data).
    
      3. It unncessarily ties the decision to show the verbose
         header to whether the commit buffer was cached. That
         makes it harder to change the logic around caching
         (e.g., if we could traverse without actually loading
         the full commit objects).
    
    These days it's safe to feed such a commit to the
    pretty-print code. Since be5c9fb9
    
     (logmsg_reencode: lazily
    load missing commit buffers, 2013-01-26), we'll load it on
    demand in such a case. So let's just always show the verbose
    headers.
    
    This does change the behavior of plumbing, but:
    
      a. The --show-all option was explicitly introduced as a
         debugging aid, and was never documented (and has rarely
         even been mentioned on the list by git devs).
    
      b. Avoiding the commits was already not deterministic due
         to (2) above. So the caller might have seen full
         headers for these commits anyway, and would need to be
         prepared for it.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJeff King <peff@peff.net>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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