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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
To: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] Accept commit in some places when tree is needed.
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 08:32:13 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0504200826360.6467@ppc970.osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vis2ikmj0.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>



On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> This patch lifts the tree-from-tree-or-commit logic from
> diff-cache.c and moves it to sha1_file.c, which is a common
> library source for the SHA1 storage part.

I don't think that's a good interface. It changes the sha1 passed into it: 
that may actually be nice, since you may want to know what it changed to, 
but I think you'd want to have that as an (optional) separate 
"sha1_result" parameter. 

Also, the "type" or "size" things make no sense to have as a parameter 
at all.

IOW, it was fine when it was an internal hacky thing in diff-cache, but 
once it's promoted to be a real library function it should definitely be 
cleaned up to have sane interfaces that make sense in general, and not 
just within the original context.

		Linus

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-04-20 15:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-20  6:08 [PATCH 1/4] Accept commit in some places when tree is needed Junio C Hamano
2005-04-20  6:35 ` (fixed) " Junio C Hamano
2005-04-20 15:32 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2005-04-21  0:19   ` (rework) [PATCH 1/5] " Junio C Hamano

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