From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/12] check_everything_connected: use a struct with named options
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2016 21:24:31 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160716012431.GB30820@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqfuran50r.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 11:13:40AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
>
> > The number of variants of check_everything_connected has
> > grown over the years, so that the "real" function takes
> > several possibly-zero, possibly-NULL arguments. We hid the
> > complexity behind some wrapper functions, but this doesn't
> > scale well when we want to add new options.
>
> I was kind of embarrassed to admit that I wasn't even aware that
> things got this bad, so I took a look at the history to realize that
> "grown over the years" above is a bit misleading statement. It is
> not like many people over the years were doing something like this.
> There are only two commits that brought in this pattern with poor
> design taste.
Heh. It is easy to lose sight of such things when it is not your primary
goal. You should see how horrible the code was that I wrote in my
original iteration, before I went back and did this refactoring. I am
embarrassed to have even written it in a rough draft. ;)
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-16 1:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-15 10:25 [PATCH 0/12] push progress reporting and keepalives Jeff King
2016-07-15 10:26 ` [PATCH 01/12] check_everything_connected: always pass --quiet to rev-list Jeff King
2016-07-15 10:28 ` [PATCH 02/12] rev-list: add optional progress reporting Jeff King
2016-07-15 18:00 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-07-16 1:23 ` Jeff King
2016-07-15 10:28 ` [PATCH 03/12] check_everything_connected: convert to argv_array Jeff King
2016-07-15 10:30 ` [PATCH 04/12] check_everything_connected: use a struct with named options Jeff King
2016-07-15 18:13 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-07-16 1:24 ` Jeff King [this message]
2016-07-15 10:32 ` [PATCH 05/12] check_connected: relay errors to alternate descriptor Jeff King
2016-07-15 18:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-07-16 1:27 ` Jeff King
2016-07-15 10:32 ` [PATCH 06/12] check_connected: add progress flag Jeff King
2016-07-15 10:33 ` [PATCH 07/12] clone: use a real progress meter for connectivity check Jeff King
2016-07-15 10:34 ` [PATCH 08/12] index-pack: add flag for showing delta-resolution progress Jeff King
2016-07-15 10:35 ` [PATCH 09/12] receive-pack: turn on index-pack resolving progress Jeff King
2016-07-15 10:36 ` [PATCH 10/12] receive-pack: relay connectivity errors to sideband Jeff King
2016-07-15 10:36 ` [PATCH 11/12] receive-pack: turn on connectivity progress Jeff King
2016-07-15 10:43 ` [PATCH 12/12] receive-pack: send keepalives during quiet periods Jeff King
2016-07-15 17:24 ` Stefan Beller
2016-07-16 7:56 ` Jeff King
2016-07-19 5:28 ` Stefan Beller
2016-07-19 10:07 ` Jeff King
2016-07-19 16:05 ` Stefan Beller
2016-07-20 13:28 ` Jeff King
2016-07-15 19:18 ` Junio C Hamano
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