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Re: [PATCH 1/5] path-list: add functions to work with unsorted lists

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Feb 29, 2008, 02:04 UTC
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Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 	This is probably useful to a number of existing non-users of
> 	path_list.

I suspect most of the non-users will stay non-users, until the thing is renamed to something more sensible.

The name gives a false impression that this is a special-purpose data structure that is meant to handle pathnames very well (e.g. canonicalizing "foo//../bar" to "bar" before doing comparsion) but in reality it does not do anything like that, and is a general purpose "table keyed with string" mechanism.

The wholesale renaming, if we were to do so, should happen when things are quiet, and this is probably not a good time for it.

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Message 3 of 29 in “Builtin "git remote"”
  1. 0/5 Builtin "git remote"Johannes Schindelin, Feb 29, 2008
  2. 1/5 path-list: add functions to work with unsorted listsJohannes Schindelin, Feb 29, 2008
  3. Junio C HamanoFeb 29, 2008
  4. Johannes SchindelinFeb 29, 2008
  5. 0/6 Builtin remote, v2Johannes Schindelin, Mar 1, 2008
  6. 1/6 Rename path_list to string_listJohannes Schindelin, Mar 1, 2008
  7. David KågedalMar 11, 2008
  8. Johannes SchindelinMar 11, 2008
  9. David KågedalMar 11, 2008
  10. 2/6 string-list: add functions to work with unsorted listsJohannes Schindelin, Mar 1, 2008
  11. 3/6 parseopt: add flag to stop on first non optionJohannes Schindelin, Mar 1, 2008
  12. 4/6 Test "git remote show" and "git remote prune"Johannes Schindelin, Mar 1, 2008
  13. 5/6 Make git-remote a builtinJohannes Schindelin, Mar 1, 2008
  14. 6/6 builtin-remote: prune remotes correctly that were added with --mirrorJohannes Schindelin, Mar 1, 2008
  15. 2/5 parseopt: add flag to stop on first non optionJohannes Schindelin, Feb 29, 2008
  16. 3/5 Test "git remote show" and "git remote prune"Johannes Schindelin, Feb 29, 2008
  17. 4/5 Make git-remote a builtinJohannes Schindelin, Feb 29, 2008
  18. 5/5 builtin-remote: prune remotes correctly that were added with --mirrorJohannes Schindelin, Feb 29, 2008
  19. Junio C HamanoFeb 29, 2008
  20. Johannes SchindelinFeb 29, 2008
  21. Daniel BarkalowFeb 29, 2008
  22. Johannes SchindelinFeb 29, 2008
  23. Johannes SchindelinMar 2, 2008
  24. Johannes SchindelinMar 2, 2008
  25. 0/2 format-patch --cover-letter improvementsJohannes Schindelin, Mar 2, 2008
  26. 1/2 format-patch: use the diff options for the cover letter, tooJohannes Schindelin, Mar 2, 2008
  27. 2/2 format-patch: wrap cover-letter's shortlog sensiblyJohannes Schindelin, Mar 2, 2008
  28. Junio C HamanoMar 2, 2008
  29. Johannes SchindelinMar 2, 2008

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