lib/PublicInbox/Inbox.pm | 2 +-

diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/Inbox.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/Inbox.pm
index accfd97472ed30be40685ee8724918b39bba9dd7..a5849a611165dc152a4946fb14e2a30dbe121bf5 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/Inbox.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/Inbox.pm
@@ -305,9 +305,9 @@ 	$self->{mm} = $self->{over} = $self->{search} = undef;
 	$ret;
 }
 
+# for v1 users w/o SQLite only
 sub msg_by_path ($$;$) {
 	my ($self, $path, $ref) = @_;
-	# TODO: allow other refs:
 	my $str = git($self)->cat_file('HEAD:'.$path, $ref);
 	$$str =~ s/\A[\r\n]*From [^\r\n]*\r?\n//s if $str;
 	$str;