Re: [PATCH] Revert "graph.c: mark private file-scope symbols as static"

> On Sat, Mar 02, 2013 at 08:16:13PM +0100, Thomas Rast wrote:
>> John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk> writes:
>> 
>> > This reverts commit ba35480439d05b8f6cca50527072194fe3278bbb.
>> >
>> > CGit uses these symbols to output the correct HTML around graph
>> > elements.  Making these symbols private means that CGit cannot be
>> > updated to use Git 1.8.0 or newer, so let's not do that.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
>> > ---
>> >
>> > I realise that Git isn't a library so making the API useful for outside
>> > projects isn't a priority, but making these two methods public makes
>> > life a lot easier for CGit.
>> >
>> > Additionally, it seems that Johan added graph_set_column_colors
>> > specifically so that CGit should use it - there's no value to having
>> > that as a method just for its use in graph.c and he was the author of
>> > CGit commit 268b34a (ui-log: Colorize commit graph, 2010-11-15).
>> 
>> Perhaps you could add a comment in the source to prevent this from
>> happening again?
> ...
> I would hope that having this message in the history should be enough to
> prevent this changing in the future....