Re: [PATCH v4 00/23] Fix incorrect use of the_index

[Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Jun 9, 2018 at 9:58 PM Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> wrote:
> I read over the rest.  Found a small grammatical error in a commit
> message.  Found multiple places that still need conversion, from
> pushing up &the_index usages to callers of ll-merge.c and sha1-file.c
> instead of having them in those files, to mixes of _cache_ and _index_
> functions as in apply.c and merge-recursive.c.  However, Duy pointed
> out there was more work to do,

Yes. This is just fyi, 40 patches later, i'm down to leaving the_index
in three files outside builtin/: merge-recursive, notes-merge.c and
transport.c. Even after the conversion we may need some more follow-up
patches because it now shows places where we should _not_ touch the
index at all, which may involve not simply passing NULL index_state to
some functions, but fixing them up to tolerate NULL index_state. So
it's going to be a few patch series until the_index is gone for good
[1].

[1] but like cheap horror movies, there's always a sequel:
the_repository is still spread in many places and hides dependencies
in the same way. We can't do anything about it though until struct
repository conversion is more or less complete.
-- 
Duy