Re: [PATCH 02/15] apply.c: stop using index compat macros

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> Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > A singe patch conversion would look like below. But for that to
> > happen, convert.c, rerere, ws.c and read-cache.c have to be converted
> > first to not use the_index.
>
> Yes, that was pretty much what I was driving at.  I do not have any
> trouble seeing a patch that converts callees that are deep in the
> callchain and are meant to serve helpers to make them capable of
> working on arbitrary in-core index instance.  That's a welcome
> change that allows us to reuse them in more context (namely, by
> callers that want to work on istate that is not the_index
> themselves).  Skipping the "intermediate" step like this patch would
> force us to focus on converting these lower-layer dependencies.