From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2014 17:19:04 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 18/22] lockfile: also keep track of the filename of the file being locked
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In-Reply-To: <1396367910-7299-19-git-send-email-mhagger@alum.mit.edu>

Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> writes:

> This reduces the amount of string editing gyrations and makes it
> unnecessary for callers to know how to derive the filename from the
> lock_filename.

Hmph.

Is it worth duplicating the whole thing?  If you are planning to
break the invariant lock_filename === filename + LOCK_SUFFIX in
future changes in the series, it is understandable, though.