Re: [PATCH] apply: mark some file-local symbols static

[Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>]

Hi Ramsay,

On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 12:44 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 3:33 PM, Ramsay Jones
> <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com> wrote:
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com>
>> ---
>>
>> Hi Christian,
>>
>> I had intended to ask you to squash this into your 'cc/apply-am'
>> branch, specifically commit 4d18b33a (apply: move libified code
>> from builtin/apply.c to apply.{c,h}, 30-07-2016).
>>
>> However, having read that commit a little closer, it seems that
>> you deliberately made these symbols public. The commit message
>> does not mention this issue at all, and it is not clear to me
>> why these symbols should be public.
>>
>> What am I missing?

These symbols are still used in builtin/apply.c until 9f87c22 ("apply:
refactor `git apply` option parsing") at the end of the series, for
example:

$ git checkout 4d18b33a
$ git grep -n apply_option_parse_directory builtin/apply.c
builtin/apply.c:86:                     0, apply_option_parse_directory },

> Their exports have been made obsolete by the reroll we have
> in 'pu' when "builtin/am: use apply api in run_apply()" was
> redone in a way not to duplicate the argument parsing.

Yeah.

> They should have been cleaned with 4820e13,

4820e13 (apply: make some parsing functions static again) is too early
in the series for cleaning this.
At that point the symbols are still used in builtin/apply.c.

> but I think
> Christian did not carefully review the whole series before
> sending it out and did not notice that they no longer need
> to be extern.

Yeah, I did not notice that they no longer need to be extern.
Now there are different options to fix this:

1) remove the symbols in 9f87c22 ("apply: refactor `git apply` option
parsing") at the end of the series, or
2) move 4820e13 (apply: make some parsing functions static again) at
the end of the series and make it also remove them, or:
3) add another patch to remove them after 9f87c22 ("apply: refactor
`git apply` option parsing")

My preference is to do 1). This way, or if I do 3), I would not need
to resend the first 31 patches in the series.

Thanks,
Christian.