Re: [PATCH 0/4] mark symbols that are unnecessarily public static

> On Fri, Oct 30, 2026 at 10:39:52AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> > Over the years, refactoring various subsystems, adding new callers,
> > and rewriting them from scratch, made some symbols that started as
> > static into global, and some other symbols that started as global,
> > no longer need to be visible outside a file that use them.  Here is
> > a small patch series that turns them back into file-scope static.
> > 
> > Honestly, I suspect that [3/4] was probably better with a forward
> > declaration in the preview I sent earlier, but in the longer term,
> > readers would not care if this conversion ended up in a large code
> > movement, as they do not have to even know it.
> 
> The subject for patch 1 caught my eye, but I eyeballed the whole series
> and they all look reasonable to me. I agree that big code movement is
> sometimes annoying in a diff, but the flip side is that the resulting
> file is nicer to read and maintain.