Re: [PATCH] rev-list: make "struct rev_list_info" static to the only user

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> writes:

>>>  	 * NEEDSWORK: These loops that attempt to find presence of
>>> -	 * options without understanding that the options they are
>>> +	 * options without understanding the options they are
>>>  	 * skipping are broken (e.g., it would not know "--grep
>>>  	 * --exclude-promisor-objects" is not triggering
>>>  	 * "--exclude-promisor-objects" option).  We really need
>> 
>> This tacked-on bit seems funny to me. Isn't the original more correct?
>> The loops do not understand that the options are broken.
>
> No, the options are fine, but the loops are broken -- they cannot tell
> what they are looking at is an option or an argument of a preceding
> option, yet they ignore that latter possibility.  So the word "that"
> is best left out.

Or "... understanding the options, which they are skipping, are
broken", perhaps.

> I also don't see a connection to the struct move,
> though.

True, this has nothing to do with the main theme of the patch.