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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: "Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy" <pclouds@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] pack-objects: rename the field "type" to "real_type"
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2015 09:47:14 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150708134713.GA5136@peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1436356591-8148-2-git-send-email-pclouds@gmail.com>

On Wed, Jul 08, 2015 at 06:56:31PM +0700, Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy wrote:

> This is to avoid the too generic name "type" and harmonize with the
> naming in index-pack. There's a subtle difference though: real_type in
> index-pack is what the upper level see, no delta types (after delta
> resolution). But real_type in pack-objects is the type to be written in
> the pack, delta types are fine (it's actually markers for reused deltas)

Hrm, now I'm confused about whether this change is a good idea.

The definition of in_pack_type says:

>  	enum object_type in_pack_type;	/* could be delta */

so now I am confused about what exactly "type" (and now "real_type")
means.

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2015-07-08 13:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-18 10:47 [PATCH 0/2] nd/slim-index-pack-memory-usage update Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2015-04-18 10:47 ` [PATCH 1/2] index-pack: reduce object_entry size to save memory Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2015-04-18 10:47 ` [PATCH 2/2] index-pack: kill union delta_base " Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2015-07-03 16:51   ` Junio C Hamano
2015-07-03 18:29     ` Duy Nguyen
2015-07-04  1:21       ` [PATCH] index-pack: fix overallocation of sorted_by_pos array Junio C Hamano
2015-07-04 22:30         ` [PATCH] index-pack: fix allocation " Junio C Hamano
2015-07-06 23:23           ` Junio C Hamano
2015-07-07  0:36           ` Duy Nguyen
2015-07-07 15:49             ` Junio C Hamano
2015-07-07 16:06               ` Jeff King
2015-07-08 11:56                 ` [PATCH 1/2] index-pack: rename the field "type" to "in_pack_type" Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2015-07-08 11:56                   ` [PATCH 2/2] pack-objects: rename the field "type" to "real_type" Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2015-07-08 13:47                     ` Jeff King [this message]
2015-07-08 13:57                       ` Duy Nguyen
2015-07-08 14:11                         ` Jeff King
2015-07-04 22:24       ` [PATCH 2/2] index-pack: kill union delta_base to save memory Junio C Hamano

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