Re: [PATCH v3 0/4] remove extern from function declarations

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> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
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> > I think spatch is smart enough not to hit the same header multiple
> > times. But the problem is that we invoke it once per file, so it
> > actually processes cache.h many times. That's slow, but also produces
> > bogus patches.
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> Yes, I've seen this and was a bit irritated myself, but not enough
> to do something about it myself, yet.
> >
> > Jacob Keller's patches to collapse this to a single invocation do fix it
> > (and I've used them selectively in the past rather than cleaning up the
> > resulting patch manually ;) ).
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> Ah, that is nice to know.  Do we want to resurrect it?