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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>,
	Parth Gala via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, Parth Gala <parthpgala@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] object.c: lookup_unknown_object() accept 'r' as parameter
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2020 13:52:35 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200213185235.GA15252@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqh7zus6hm.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>

On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 10:10:45AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> > Right, but my suggestion was that this advice doesn't apply to this
> > particular instance since I don't expect that we'd ever passing
> > something other than 'the_repository'.
> >
> > Specifically, I was worried that we'd get bitten by re-assigning 'r' in
> > the middle of the function and then end up in some odd broken state.
> 
> "git fsck" works only in a single, "the", repository, so I guess you
> are right to be worried about unnecessary complexity here.

I think the end-game for this whole repository transition would be to
get rid of the_repository, though. I.e., I'd envision the progression
something like this:

  1. Teach all of the library code to take (and operate on) "struct
     repository".

  2. Teach static local functions like this to pass in the_repository.

  3. Teach top-level commands like cmd_fsck() to pass the_repository to
     all of those static local helpers.

  4. Teach top-level commands to get a real repository pointer, either
     from the git.c wrapper (when RUN_SETUP is used) or by calling
     setup_git_repository() themselves.

  5. Grep for the_repository and drop it everywhere.

Here we're at step 2 now, but declaring "r" makes moving to step 3 just
a little easier. And I think the existence of steps 4 and 5 implies that
it would eventually be worth going through step 3.

Of course I just wrote those steps down for the first time, so maybe
nobody else shares my vision. ;)

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2020-02-13 18:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-12 19:19 [PATCH 0/5] object.c: localize global the_repository variable into r Parth Gala via GitGitGadget
2020-02-12 19:19 ` [PATCH 1/5] object.c: get_max_object_index and get_indexed_object accept 'r' parameter Parth Gala via GitGitGadget
2020-02-12 20:22   ` Taylor Blau
2020-02-12 21:13     ` Eric Sunshine
2020-02-13  5:23     ` parth gala
2020-02-12 19:19 ` [PATCH 2/5] object.c: lookup_unknown_object() accept 'r' as parameter Parth Gala via GitGitGadget
2020-02-12 20:25   ` Taylor Blau
2020-02-12 21:11     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-02-13 18:00       ` Taylor Blau
2020-02-13 18:10         ` Junio C Hamano
2020-02-13 18:52           ` Jeff King [this message]
2020-02-15  0:00             ` Taylor Blau
2020-02-12 19:19 ` [PATCH 3/5] object.c: parse_object_or_die() " Parth Gala via GitGitGadget
2020-02-12 19:19 ` [PATCH 4/5] object.c: clear_object_flags() " Parth Gala via GitGitGadget
2020-02-12 19:19 ` [PATCH 5/5] object.c: clear_commit_marks_all() " Parth Gala via GitGitGadget
2020-02-12 20:18 ` [PATCH 0/5] object.c: localize global the_repository variable into r Taylor Blau
2020-02-13  5:14   ` parth gala

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