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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Cc: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>,
	"git\@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>,
	Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv3] attr: convert to new threadsafe API
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2016 17:40:33 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqbmyhnpby.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGZ79kbq7m6s5s8OCXFwyonUdiaL3nVNCoGS40xkH2qKCkYzag@mail.gmail.com> (Stefan Beller's message of "Tue, 18 Oct 2016 17:20:53 -0700")

Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> writes:

> I am not sure if I see the upside on wrapping a single value except for
> its future proofness,

I do not see anything other than future-proofing, either.  If we
need to touch all the code that uses the attributes to update the
API, I'd prefer to avoid having to do that again in the future.

      reply	other threads:[~2016-10-19  0:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-12 22:41 [PATCHv3] attr: convert to new threadsafe API Stefan Beller
2016-10-12 23:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-10-13 18:42   ` Stefan Beller
2016-10-13 22:08     ` Stefan Beller
2016-10-14 15:37   ` Junio C Hamano
2016-10-18 23:52     ` Stefan Beller
2016-10-19  0:06       ` Junio C Hamano
2016-10-19  0:20         ` Stefan Beller
2016-10-19  0:40           ` Junio C Hamano [this message]

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