Re: [PATCH v7 05/12] for-each-ref: introduce new structures for better organisation

> Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > On 06/11/2015 11:11 PM, Matthieu Moy wrote:
> >> Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com> writes:
> >>
> >>> +struct ref_filter_cbdata {
> >>> +    struct ref_array array;
> >>> +    struct ref_filter filter;
> >>> +};
> >>
> >> I didn't notice this at first, but why introduce the structure like this
> >> when you are going to turn it into pointers later in PATCH 7:
> > Here it is serving to for-each-ref, so I kept it this way so as to ensure
> > that currently as per this patch
> >
> > struct ref_filter_cbdata ref_cbdata;
> >
> > would be the only declaration needed in for-each-ref.c
> > If I made them pointers here I would need to have
> >
> > struct ref_filter_cbdata ref_cbdata;
> > struct ref_filter filter;
> > struct ref_array array;
> > ref_cbdata.filter = &filter;
> > ref_cbdata.array = &array;
>
> ... but after PATCH 7, filter and array are passed to ref_filter so you
> don't have this overhead anyway. Makes sense.
>