Some existing and future functions of Issue operate on the initial message of the issue. If we store only the Issues id, we have to retrieve the commit on multiple occasions, e.g. we have a potential for a lot of overhead.
Ideally, we would store the initial message as a git2::Commit. However, this is not practical due to some drawbacks of the interface. Storing an Object on the other hand provides at least some caching as well as other benefits.
Some existing and future functions of
Issueoperate on the initial message of the issue. If we store only theIssues id, we have to retrieve the commit on multiple occasions, e.g. we have a potential for a lot of overhead.Ideally, we would store the initial message as a
git2::Commit. However, this is not practical due to some drawbacks of the interface. Storing anObjecton the other hand provides at least some caching as well as other benefits.