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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "Martin Ågren" <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Cc: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	Alban Gruin <alban.gruin@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] avoid peeking into `struct lock_file`
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2021 00:19:51 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqft3dma54.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAN0heSqdphJWgG6gLM4a8mrDLh6qGUVq5w2FYAr7g8uePrcd2w@mail.gmail.com> ("Martin Ågren"'s message of "Thu, 7 Jan 2021 08:55:32 +0100")

Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com> writes:

> To be perfectly honest, I just grepped around. I just tried your
> suggestion and it seems like I really did catch everyone who looks at
> `->tempfile` or `.tempfile`.

That's wonderful ;-)

> I could add a remark in the commit message of the last patch along the
> lines of "After this commit, renaming the `tempfile` field only triggers
> compilation errors in lockfile.[ch] and this one instance that we're
> intentionally leaving here.".

It would be a nice addition to the log message to help readers to
feel confident about the conversion.  It is OK if you want to add
one, and certainly a good trick to have in your toolbox for your
next conversion, but it may not be worth rerolling only to update
the log message with such a remark.

Thanks.

  reply	other threads:[~2021-01-07  8:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-05 19:23 [PATCH 0/5] avoid peeking into `struct lock_file` Martin Ågren
2021-01-05 19:23 ` [PATCH 1/5] builtin/gc: don't peek " Martin Ågren
2021-01-05 19:23 ` [PATCH 2/5] commit-graph: " Martin Ågren
2021-01-05 19:23 ` [PATCH 3/5] midx: " Martin Ågren
2021-01-05 19:23 ` [PATCH 4/5] refs/files-backend: " Martin Ågren
2021-01-05 19:23 ` [PATCH 5/5] read-cache: try not to peek into `struct {lock_,temp}file` Martin Ågren
2021-01-06  2:16 ` [PATCH 0/5] avoid peeking into `struct lock_file` Derrick Stolee
2021-01-06 11:55   ` Junio C Hamano
2021-01-06 22:36     ` Junio C Hamano
2021-01-07  2:08       ` Derrick Stolee
2021-01-07  7:55         ` Martin Ågren
2021-01-07  8:19           ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2021-01-07 18:17             ` Martin Ågren

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