From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2023 16:42:29 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] revision: clear decoration structs during release_revisions()
Message-ID: <xmqqa5svbt3e.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <20231006005132.GA992085@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> On Thu, Oct 05, 2023 at 04:00:54PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> Wow, nested maze of callbacks make my head spin ;-) but they all
>> look reasonable.  Thanks.
>
> Yeah, I don't love those one-liner callbacks just to handle the cast.
>
> The other alternative is to write some kind of for_each_decoration()
> macro, but I think it ends up in the usual macro hell (requiring the
> caller to provide iterator variables, hanging half-open braces, and so
> on). It might be worth it if iterating could be used in other places,
> but I don't think it is.
>
> So I tried to choose the lesser of two evils. :)

Oh, I am happy with the result.