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Next to our typical object database sources, each object database also
has an implicit source of "cached" objects. These cached objects only
exist in memory and some use cases:
- They contain evergreen objects that we expect to always exist, like
for example the empty tree.
- They can be used to store temporary objects that we don't want to
persist to disk, which is used by git-blame(1) to create a fake
worktree commit.
Overall, their use is somewhat restricted though. For example, we don't
provide the ability to use it as a temporary object database source that
allows the user to write objects, but discard them after Git exists. So
while these cached objects behave almost like a source, they aren't used
as one.
This is about to change over the following commits, where we will turn
cached objects into a new "in-memory" source. This will allow us to use
it exactly the same as any other source by providing the same common
interface as the "files" source.
For now, the in-memory source only hosts the cached objects and doesn't
provide any logic yet. This will change with subsequent commits, where
we move respective functionality into the source.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>