From: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 06:36:54 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 03/26] refs-be-files.c: rename refs to refs-be-files
Message-ID: <56209B06.6000900@alum.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <1444938410-2345-4-git-send-email-dturner@twopensource.com>

On 10/15/2015 09:46 PM, David Turner wrote:
> From: Ronnie Sahlberg <sahlberg@google.com>
> 
> Rename refs.c to refs-be-files.c to indicate that this file now
> holds the implementation for the files based refs backend.
> A smaller portion of the code in this file is backend agnostic and will
> be moved to a a new refs.c file that will hold all the common refs code

"a" is repeated above.

> that is shared across all backends.
> 
> A second reason for first moving all the code to the new file and then
> move the backend agnostic code back to refs.c instead of the other way
> around is because the code that will eventually remain in this new
> refs-be-files.c file is so entangled that it would then be very
> difficult to break the split up into small independent patches/chunks.
> [...]

Michael

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