From: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 05:53:35 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/7] invalidate_ref_cache(): rename function from invalidate_cached_refs()
Message-ID: <4E93D9DF.2080004@alum.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <7vfwj0iehl.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On 10/11/2011 02:00 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> writes:
> 
>> It is the cache that is being invalidated, not the references.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
>> ---
> 
> Although I think one can say "ref cache is the container for cached refs"
> and invalidating the "ref cache" as the container and invalidating the
> "cached refs" as a collection mean essentially the same thing, probably
> the new name makes more sense.

I certainly didn't mean to imply that the old name was incorrect.  I
just think that the new name removes a tiny bit of ambiguity.

Michael

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