Re: [PATCH 0/6] remove USE_THE_INDEX_COMPATIBILITY_MACROS

[Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com>]

Hi Ævar

On 15/12/2022 09:58, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> My recent now-landed topic[1] to remove most use of
> "USE_THE_INDEX_COMPATIBILITY_MACROS" was merged in 041df69edd3 (Merge
> branch 'ab/fewer-the-index-macros', 2022-11-28).
> 
> It left out use of the macros that would have conflicted with
> in-flight changes, but as those topics have landed we can now complete
> the migration.
> 
> As before this is almost entirely a matter of applying the existing
> "pending" coccinelle rules, the exceptions being 1/6, and the *.h
> changes where we remove the macro definitions (the macro users being
> edited by coccinelle).
> 
> The 4-5/6 then handle some edge cases we had left (but the code change
> itself is done by coccinelle).

I've only given these patches a quick scan, but I think they look good. 
None of the callers that are converted here are in library code so using 
the_index makes perfect sense.

Best Wishes

Phillip


> 1. https://lore.kernel.org/git/cover-v2-00.11-00000000000-20221119T125550Z-avarab@gmail.com/
> 
> Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason (6):
>    builtin/rm.c: use narrower "USE_THE_INDEX_VARIABLE"
>    cocci & cache.h: fully apply "active_nr" part of index-compatibility
>    cocci & cache.h: apply pending "index_cache_pos" rule
>    cocci & cache-tree.h: migrate "write_cache_as_tree" to "*_index_*"
>    cache-tree API: remove redundant update_main_cache_tree()
>    cocci & cache.h: remove "USE_THE_INDEX_COMPATIBILITY_MACROS"
> 
>   builtin/am.c                                  |  6 ++--
>   builtin/commit.c                              | 18 +++++-----
>   builtin/merge.c                               |  8 ++---
>   builtin/mv.c                                  |  8 +++--
>   builtin/rm.c                                  |  2 +-
>   builtin/stash.c                               | 11 +++---
>   builtin/update-index.c                        |  4 +--
>   builtin/write-tree.c                          |  5 +--
>   cache-tree.h                                  | 15 --------
>   cache.h                                       | 12 +------
>   contrib/coccinelle/index-compatibility.cocci  | 36 ++++++++++++++-----
>   .../index-compatibility.pending.cocci         | 24 -------------
>   12 files changed, 62 insertions(+), 87 deletions(-)
>   delete mode 100644 contrib/coccinelle/index-compatibility.pending.cocci
>