From: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2021 14:48:23 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 02/10] merge-ort: add a special minimal index just for renormalization
Message-ID: <10b30844-2e4c-157f-b4c6-5e4890e18858@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <24454e67b186992b9ef7a8ac6f220cbb4aaafd6b.1615271086.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

On 3/9/2021 1:24 AM, Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget wrote:
> From: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
> 
> renormalize_buffer() requires an index_state, which is something that
> merge-ort does not operate with.  However, all the renormalization code
> needs is an index with a .gitattributes file...plus a little bit of
> setup.  Create such an index, along with the deallocation and
> attr_direction handling.
> 
> A subsequent commit will add a function to finish the initialization
> of this index.

Is this the best way to solve this problem? Shouldn't we extract the
logic that interacts with the .gitattributes file from
renormalize_buffer() (say, to renormalize_buffer_attributes()) and
just pass the .gitattributes file instead of creating a fake index?

It probably moves more code to do it the way I recommend, but it
helps to separate the concerns a bit better. Of course, I haven't
tried doing it myself, so maybe it's harder than I think.
 
Thanks,
-Stolee