Re: [PATCH] dir: restructure in a way to avoid passing around a struct dirent

>     When I was more than a bit burned out on dir.c in late December, I had
>     looked at making another change to remove the need for a dirent but
>     punted because it looked like "way too much work". Junio and Peff both
>     later suggested the same cleanup, but I said it was too much work. Peff
>     posted a patch which demonstrated that it was actually pretty simple[1],
>     but I somehow read his email wrong and assumed he was commenting on my
>     patch (if I had looked even slightly closer...). His patch was actually
>     for before en/fill-directory-fixes was applied, so I have updated it
>     slightly to apply after that series.

>     I'm not sure if I'm supposed to add a Reviewed-by me or a Signed-off-by
>     or both, but I read through it closely to avoid any hidden surprises. I
>     probably could have saved Dscho some time last month if I would have
>     just looked a little closer. Sorry about all that...
>     
>     (And yeah, we'll need Peff's Signed-off-by, since I'm leaving him as the
>     author; I really only made a small tweak to update his patch.)
>     
>     CC: Jeff King peff@peff.net [peff@peff.net], Johannes Schindelin 
>     Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de [Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de]