From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com>
Cc: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] global: drop external `the_index` variable
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2024 10:50:48 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq8r1eo6pz.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <28541f00-9054-4aa0-8e47-348043b5f863@gmail.com> (Phillip Wood's message of "Mon, 15 Apr 2024 14:55:07 +0100")
Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com> writes:
> Maybe I've got the wrong end of the stick but my impression is that it
> is the use of "the_repository" in library code (i.e. the files outside
> builtin/) that causes most of the pain. With that in mind would be we
> better focusing contributor and reviewer effort on eliminating
> "the_repository" from those files instead? It would need to be done in
> carefully in stages but would bring real benefits.
I am afraid that it would take a much larger effort.
I have a suspicion that many of the users of the_index do not have
to even need that the index_state they work on is connected to any
instance of a repository object (in other words, I tend to think
that the value of having a pointer to an index_state in an instance
of a repository structure is dubious), so in a sense, this rewrite
of code that use the_index to use the_repository may be going in a
wrong direction. In other words, these functions may eventually
want to take a pointer to an index_state structure as their
parameters, without having to deal with the whole repository
structure, but this rewrite assumes they would eventually want to
all work with a repository structure when the_repository dependency
is lifted. I'll need to see the codepaths involved more carefully
and think about it.
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-04-15 17:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-04-15 11:42 [PATCH 0/5] global: drop external `the_index` variable Patrick Steinhardt
2024-04-15 11:42 ` [PATCH 1/5] t/helper: stop using `the_index` Patrick Steinhardt
2024-04-17 17:23 ` Karthik Nayak
2024-04-15 11:42 ` [PATCH 2/5] builtin: " Patrick Steinhardt
2024-04-17 17:32 ` Karthik Nayak
2024-04-18 12:16 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2024-04-15 11:42 ` [PATCH 3/5] repository: initialize index in `repo_init()` Patrick Steinhardt
2024-04-17 17:38 ` Karthik Nayak
2024-04-18 12:16 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2024-04-15 11:43 ` [PATCH 4/5] builtin/clone: stop using `the_index` Patrick Steinhardt
2024-04-15 11:43 ` [PATCH 5/5] repository: drop global `the_index` variable Patrick Steinhardt
2024-04-15 13:55 ` [PATCH 0/5] global: drop external " Phillip Wood
2024-04-15 14:15 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2024-04-15 17:50 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2024-04-16 5:27 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2024-04-17 17:40 ` Karthik Nayak
2024-04-18 12:16 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2024-04-18 12:14 ` [PATCH v2 0/6] global: drop " Patrick Steinhardt
2024-04-18 12:14 ` [PATCH v2 1/6] t/helper: stop using `the_index` Patrick Steinhardt
2024-04-18 12:14 ` [PATCH v2 2/6] builtin: " Patrick Steinhardt
2024-04-18 12:14 ` [PATCH v2 3/6] repository: initialize index in `repo_init()` Patrick Steinhardt
2024-04-18 12:14 ` [PATCH v2 4/6] builtin/clone: stop using `the_index` Patrick Steinhardt
2024-04-18 12:14 ` [PATCH v2 5/6] repository: drop `the_index` variable Patrick Steinhardt
2024-04-18 12:14 ` [PATCH v2 6/6] repository: drop `initialize_the_repository()` Patrick Steinhardt
2024-04-18 19:36 ` [PATCH v2 0/6] global: drop `the_index` variable Junio C Hamano
2024-04-19 4:25 ` Patrick Steinhardt
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