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Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/31] repository object
From: Brandon Williams <bmwill () google ! com>
Date: 2017-05-31 23:01:22
Message-ID: 20170531230122.GA43421 () google ! com
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On 05/31, Stefan Beller wrote:
> On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 2:43 PM, Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com> wrote:
> > Given the vast interest expressed when I sent out my RFC series I decided it
> > would be worth it to invest more time to making a repository object a reality.
> >
> > This series is an extension of the last series I sent out (in that ls-files is
> > converted to working on submodules in-process using repository objects instead
> > of spawning a child process to do the work). The big difference from the RFC
> > series is that I went through and did the work to migrate key repository state
> > from global variables in 'environment.c' to being stored in a repository object
> > itself. I migrated the bits of state that seemed reasonable for this series,
> > there is still a lot of global state which could be migrated in the future.
> >
> > I do think that we need to be slightly cautious about moving global state into
> > the repository object though, I don't want 'struct repo' to simply become a
> > kitchen sink where everything gets dumped. But this is just a warning for the
> > future.
>
> Or in other words:
> You want to have another struct e.g. 'the_command_line_arguments',
> which would carry the verbosity/color options for example as they are
> not related to a repo object, but to the current command being run?
Yes exactly. Library code that needs to operate on a repository would
then be able to take arguments like:
some_library_function(struct repo *repo, struct lib_opts *ops)
Much like how the grep machinery takes a grep_opts struct.
>
> > Since this is a v1 I'm fairly certain that it still has a lot of rough edges
> > (like I think I need to write better commit messages, and we should probably
> > have more comments documenting object fields/contract) but I want to get the
> > review process started sooner rather than later since I'm sure people will have
> > opinions (e.g. should it be called 'struct repo' or 'struct repository'?!).
>
> IMHO this is the most obvious, but bikesheddable part of the series. ;)
I know, that's why I mentioned it ;)
> Keep it short as everyone knows what a 'repo' is.
--
Brandon Williams
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