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From: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Matheus Tavares <matheus.bernardino@usp.br>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dir-iterator: drop unused `DIR_ITERATOR_FOLLOW_SYMLINKS`
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2023 15:03:01 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y+6L9R9HkkUc7PkX@nand.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Y+560+/G4pelldXF@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On Thu, Feb 16, 2023 at 01:49:55PM -0500, Jeff King wrote:
> Thanks for following up on this. I think it's an obviously good
> direction, and the patch looks sensible. It's hard to grep for
> --follow-symlinks or FOLLOW_SYMLINKS to make sure you got everything,
> just because there are other unrelated features that use that name. ;)

No problem.

> But...that is true even before your patch. dir5 is not mentioned in any
> of the expected output, even in fa1da7d2ee (dir-iterator: add flags
> parameter to dir_iterator_begin, 2019-07-10) where it was added. Was it
> just vestigial? Or is it somehow important that it is _not_ in the
> output?
>
> I didn't dig, and even if it can be removed, it would probably make
> sense to do it separately from your patch anyway.

I have no idea either. From a cursory scan, I think I'd err on the side
of it being vestigial. But Matheus (cc'd) should be able to tell us for
sure.

Thanks,
Taylor

  reply	other threads:[~2023-02-16 20:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-02-16 18:27 [PATCH] dir-iterator: drop unused `DIR_ITERATOR_FOLLOW_SYMLINKS` Taylor Blau
2023-02-16 18:49 ` Jeff King
2023-02-16 20:03   ` Taylor Blau [this message]
2023-02-16 20:05     ` Taylor Blau
2023-02-17  0:16       ` Matheus Tavares Bernardino
2023-02-17  0:40         ` [PATCH 2/1] t0066: drop setup of "dir5" Jeff King

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