Re: [PATCH 1/2] gitweb: allow access to forks with strict_export

> Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:
> > Matt McCutchen <matt@mattmccutchen.net> writes:
>>
>> CC-ed Petr Baudis, author of forks support in gitweb.
>>
>>> git_get_projects_list excludes forks in order to unclutter the main
>>> project list, but this caused the strict_export check, which also relies
>>> on git_get_project_list, to incorrectly fail for forks.  This patch adds
>>> an argument so git_get_projects_list knows when it is being called for a
>>> strict_export check (as opposed to a user-visible project list) and
>>> doesn't exclude the forks.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Matt McCutchen <matt@mattmccutchen.net>
>>
>> Looks good for me.
> 
> That sounds like a broken API to me.
> 
> At least, please have the decency to not call the extra parameter "for
> strict export".  I would understand it if the extra parameter is called
> "toplevel_only" (or its negation, "include_forks").
> 
> IOW, don't name a parameter after the name of one caller that happens to
> want an unspecified special semantics, without saying what that special
> semantics is.  Instead, name it after the special semantics that the
> argument triggers.