a verb stops reading every loose object in the store before it can open one, because the open now indexes the object directory and reads the file at the address it is asked for, so one complete index still answers membership, the persist's candidate set, gc's sweep and ADR 0038's burn while a burned address keeps no route back through the directory it came from, and the sixth opt-in half that can see any of this refuses a fixture whose object directory does not hold the objects it claims (#1545) 5c98eff6 · dbf3dbe6…
Renames are not followed. loot's tree maps a path to an address, so a rename is a delete and an add. This list is the history of the name, not of the bytes.