From: Junio C Hamano Date: Thu, 10 May 2018 04:26:24 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] lock_file: make function-local locks non-static Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Martin Ă…gren writes: > On 9 May 2018 at 18:19, Duy Nguyen wrote: >> On Tue, May 8, 2018 at 8:18 PM, Jeff King wrote: > >>> It should be totally safe. If you look at "struct lock_file", it is now >>> simply a pointer to a tempfile allocated on the heap (in fact, I thought >>> about getting rid of lock_file entirely, but the diff is noisy and it >>> actually has some value as an abstraction over a pure tempfile). >> >> Ah.. I did miss that "everything on heap" thing. Sorry for the noise >> Martin and thanks for clarification Jeff :) > > Hey, no problem. In fact, the "noise" as you call it had some signal in > it: the commit messages should obviously say more about this. Thanks all for working it out.