Re: [PATCH 003/194] object-store: move packed_git and packed_git_mru to object store

> Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> writes:
> 
>> I thought it may be a helpful
>> for merging this series with the rest of the evolved code base which
>> may make use of one of the converted functions. So instead of fixing
>> that new instance manually, cocinelle could do that instead.
> 
> Having the .cocci used for the conversion *somewhere* would indeed
> be helpful, as it allows me to (1) try reproducing this patch by
> somebody else using the file and following the steps in order to
> audit this patch and (2) catch new places that need to be migrated
> in in-flight topics.
> 
> But placing it in contrib/coccinelle/ has other side effects.

> I can think of two precedents in this project, namely:
> 
>   - fixup-builtins in 36e5e70e ("Start deprecating "git-command" in
>     favor of "git command"", 2007-06-30)
> 
>   - convert-cache in d98b46f8 ("Do SHA1 hash _before_ compression.",
>     2005-04-20)
> 
> that are about tools that is useful during a transition period but
> can and should be removed after transition is over.  These two were
> done as one-off and added at the top-level, but perhaps we want a
> new directory at the top (e.g. devtools/) to add things like this
> and hold them while they are relevant?