Re: [PATCH 4/3] Fold get_merge_bases_clean() into get_merge_bases()

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Jul 2, 2006, 21:17 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0607021414060.12404@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <44A8339B.7070608@lsrfire.ath.cx>

On Sun, 2 Jul 2006, Rene Scharfe wrote:

>
> I have an idea.  Would it help to gather a list of all commit object
> flags from the different files?  And then we would come up with unique
> names?  And then move the definition of all of them to commit.h?

We already did that once, for a subset of the programs. Except we put them in revision.h instead ;)

And yes, we should probably do it for most of the rest.

Some of them (git-show-branch) have really special flags usage, and don't want to pollute their magic flags with anybody else at all, but most of the rest (fetch.c etc) have just a few flags and could in fact mostly re-use the standard ones.

		Linus

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