From: Thiago Farina <tfransosi@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2010 12:23:14 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] commit: Add commit_list prefix to reduce_heads function.
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On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 3:24 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Thiago Farina <tfransosi@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Signed-off-by: Thiago Farina <tfransosi@gmail.com>
>
> I really do not like this.
>
I don't feel very strong about it. And as I learned from Jonathan, I
don't care if you will take or not. I think my intention was good, but
I can't please everybody

I was just trying to put commit_list in a better shape and resemble it
in a more explicit API.

> The use of type "struct commit_list" to hold the set of parent commits is
> incidental; if we had "struct commit_set", we would have written a
> function with the same purpose, and named it the same "reduce_HEADS".
>
> Adding commit_list to the name makes the code harder to read (and type)
> with little added benefit.  "LIST"-ness is not the important part.
>
> If a function takes a commit_list, named "reduce_HEADS",

What? reduce_HEADS ? HEADS with CAPSLOCK?