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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Elliott Cable <me@ell.io>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] toposort: rename "lifo" field
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 01:05:26 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130610050526.GC3621@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1370820277-30158-2-git-send-email-gitster@pobox.com>

On Sun, Jun 09, 2013 at 04:24:34PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> The name "lifo", however, is too strongly tied to the way how the
> function implements its behaviour, and does not describe what the
> behaviour _means_.
> 
> Replace this field with an enum rev_sort_order, with two possible
> values: REV_SORT_IN_GRAPH_ORDER and REV_SORT_BY_COMMIT_DATE, and
> update the existing code.  The mechanical replacement rule is:
> 
>   "lifo == 0" is equivalent to "sort_order == REV_SORT_BY_COMMIT_DATE"
>   "lifo == 1" is equivalent to "sort_order == REV_SORT_IN_GRAPH_ORDER"

Thanks. Having looked at this code for the first time in a long time
recently, I was very confused by the purpose of the "lifo" flag; this
patch would have made it much clearer.

Patch itself looks fine to me.

-Peff

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-06-10  5:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-04 18:08 [PATCH/RFC] add --authorship-order flag to git log / rev-list elliottcable
2013-06-04 18:08 ` [PATCH/RFC] rev-list: add --authorship-order alternative ordering elliottcable
2013-06-04 19:14   ` Junio C Hamano
2013-06-04 21:20     ` Junio C Hamano
2013-06-06 19:03       ` Elliott Cable
2013-06-06 19:29         ` Junio C Hamano
2013-06-06 19:32           ` Elliott Cable
2013-06-06 19:40         ` Junio C Hamano
2013-06-06 22:48           ` Junio C Hamano
2013-06-06 23:25             ` [PATCH] toposort: rename "lifo" field Junio C Hamano
2013-06-07  1:25               ` Junio C Hamano
2013-06-07  5:11                 ` [PATCH 0/3] Preparing for --date-order=author Junio C Hamano
2013-06-07  5:11                   ` [PATCH 1/3] toposort: rename "lifo" field Junio C Hamano
2013-06-07  5:18                     ` Eric Sunshine
2013-06-07  5:21                       ` Junio C Hamano
2013-06-07  5:11                   ` [PATCH 2/3] commit-queue: LIFO or priority queue of commits Junio C Hamano
2013-06-07  5:29                     ` Eric Sunshine
2013-06-07  5:11                   ` [PATCH 3/3] sort-in-topological-order: use commit-queue Junio C Hamano
2013-06-09 23:24                   ` [PATCH v2 0/4] log --author-date-order Junio C Hamano
2013-06-09 23:24                     ` [PATCH v2 1/4] toposort: rename "lifo" field Junio C Hamano
2013-06-10  2:12                       ` Eric Sunshine
2013-06-10  5:05                       ` Jeff King [this message]
2013-06-09 23:24                     ` [PATCH v2 2/4] commit-queue: LIFO or priority queue of commits Junio C Hamano
2013-06-10  5:25                       ` Jeff King
2013-06-10  7:21                         ` Junio C Hamano
2013-06-10 18:15                           ` Jeff King
2013-06-10 18:56                             ` Junio C Hamano
2013-06-10 18:59                               ` Jeff King
2013-06-10 23:23                                 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-06-11  6:36                                   ` Jeff King
2013-06-11 17:02                                     ` Junio C Hamano
2013-06-11 22:19                                     ` [PATCH v3 0/4] log --author-date-order Junio C Hamano
2013-06-11 22:19                                       ` [PATCH v3 1/4] toposort: rename "lifo" field Junio C Hamano
2013-06-11 22:19                                       ` [PATCH v3 2/4] prio-queue: priority queue of pointers to structs Junio C Hamano
2013-06-11 22:19                                       ` [PATCH v3 3/4] sort-in-topological-order: use prio-queue Junio C Hamano
2013-06-11 22:19                                       ` [PATCH v3 4/4] log: --author-date-order Junio C Hamano
2013-06-09 23:24                     ` [PATCH v2 3/4] sort-in-topological-order: use commit-queue Junio C Hamano
2013-06-09 23:37                       ` Junio C Hamano
2013-06-10  5:31                         ` Jeff King
2013-06-10  7:27                           ` Junio C Hamano
2013-06-10 18:24                             ` Jeff King
2013-06-09 23:24                     ` [PATCH v2 4/4] log: --author-date-order Junio C Hamano
2013-06-10  5:50                       ` Jeff King
2013-06-10  7:39                         ` Junio C Hamano
2013-06-10 18:49                           ` Jeff King
2013-06-20 19:36                             ` Junio C Hamano
2013-06-20 20:16                               ` Jeff King
2013-06-07  5:09               ` [PATCH] toposort: rename "lifo" field Eric Sunshine
2013-06-04 21:22     ` [PATCH/RFC] rev-list: add --authorship-order alternative ordering Jeff King
2013-06-04 18:53 ` [PATCH/RFC] add --authorship-order flag to git log / rev-list Junio C Hamano
2013-06-06 18:06   ` Elliott Cable

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