From: Oswald Buddenhagen <oswald.buddenhagen@gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2023 07:57:11 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 02/32] doc hash-function-transition: Augment compatObjectFormat with readCompatMap
Message-ID: <ZQAZ19gyvt8ab7f6@ugly>
In-Reply-To: <87ledcb7ec.fsf_-_@email.froward.int.ebiederm.org>

On Mon, Sep 11, 2023 at 06:46:19PM -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>+The difference between compatObjectFormat and readCompatMap would be that
>+compatObjectFormat would ask git to read existing maps, but would not ask
>+git to write or create them.
> 
the argument makes sense, but the asymmetry in the naming bugs me. in 
particular "[read]compatMap" seems too non-descript.

regards