From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 22:42:38 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 06/28] connect.c: teach get_remote_heads to parse "shallow" lines
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:

> 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".