[PATCH 0/3] revision: refactor ref_excludes to ref_visibility

The ref_excludes API is used to tell which refs should be excluded. However, there are times when we would want to add refs to explicitly include as well. 4fe42f326e (pack-refs: teach pack-refs --include option, 2023-05-12) taught pack-refs how to include certain refs, but did it in a more manual way by keeping the ref patterns in a separate string list. Instead, we can easily extend the ref_excludes API to include refs as well, since this use case fits into the API nicely.

Refactor the API by renaming it to ref_visibility, and add a ref_visible() helper that takes into account ref inclusion.

John Cai (3):
  revision: rename ref_excludes to ref_visibility
  revision: add ref_visible() helper
  pack-refs: use new ref_visible() helper

 builtin/pack-refs.c       | 20 ++++----
 builtin/rev-parse.c       | 18 +++----
 refs.h                    |  2 +-
 refs/files-backend.c      | 11 +----
 revision.c                | 98 +++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
 revision.h                | 37 +++++++++++----
 t/helper/test-ref-store.c |  8 ++--
 7 files changed, 111 insertions(+), 83 deletions(-)

base-commit: 6640c2d06d112675426cf436f0594f0e8c614848
Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-git-1515%2Fjohn-cai%2Fjc%2Frefactor-ref-excludes-v1
Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-git-1515/john-cai/jc/refactor-ref-excludes-v1
Pull-Request: https://github.com/git/git/pull/1515