Re: [PATCH 01/19] revision.h: avoid bit fields in struct rev_info

> On Wed, May 8, 2019 at 10:52 PM Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> The biggest issue with my suggestion is that it requires changing the
>> consumers of the options, as they would no longer live directly on the
>> rev_info struct. That would be a big change, even if it could be done
>> with string replacement.
> 
> I agree rev_info has grown "wild". It's quite ancient code. As you
> noted, it's a big change. And since my series is already long (76
> patches), I would rather focus on just one thing, rewriting the
> parsing code with minimum changes to anything else, preferably retain
> the exact same old behavior.
> 
> After that work is done (and no regression found), we could focus on
> reorganizing rev_info, which could be quite "interesting". Some fields
> may be overloaded with different purposes, which I just can't spend
> time investigating now. There's also the problem with freeing
> resources after rev-list is done, which I think we have ignored so
> far.