From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:04:31 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] path-list: add functions to work with unsorted lists
Message-ID: <7vprugfrgw.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0802290144410.22527@racer.site>

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.