From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2024 18:57:39 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 06/10] trailer: spread usage of "trailer_block" language
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In-Reply-To: <0a9a7438c3ff39f1434087bf3ed6a9865758c803.1706664145.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

"Linus Arver via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> writes:

> From: Linus Arver <linusa@google.com>
>
> Deprecate the "trailer_info" struct name and replace it with
> "trailer_block". The main reason is to help readability, because
> "trailer_info" on the surface sounds like it's about a single trailer
> when in reality it is a collection of contiguous lines, at least 25% of
> which are trailers.

Yup, "info" is usually a fairly meaningless word.  At least "block"
may imply it is a collection of trailers.

The naming would not matter as much to the API users, if the thing
is now opaque, though.