Re: [PATCH v3 06/28] connect.c: teach get_remote_heads to parse "shallow" lines

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Nov 25, 2013, 22:42 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqd2low1b5.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqtxf0w440.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

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> Perhaps a preparatory patch needs to rename the structure type to
> object_name_list or something.  And then we can make the variable
> names, not typenames, responsible for signalling what they mean,
> i.e.
>
> 	get_remote_heads(...
>         	struct list_of_objects *extra_have,
>                 struct list_of_objects *shallow_points);
>
> when we introduce the new parameter.

Yuck, and these are not "list-of-objects", either. They are "list-of-object-names".

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