From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2018 23:31:32 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/19] Bring more repository handles into our code base
Message-ID: <xmqqr2gwdprf.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <20181011211754.31369-1-sbeller@google.com>

Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> writes:

> Additionally each patch adds a semantic patch, that would port from the old to
> the new function. These semantic patches are all applied in the very last patch,
> but we could omit applying the last patch if it causes too many merge conflicts
> and trickl in the semantic patches over time when there are no merge conflicts.

That's an interesting approach ;-)

> The original goal of all these refactoring series was to remove add_submodule_odb 
> in submodule.c, which was partially reached with this series.

Yup, that is a very good goalpost to keep in mind.

> remaining calls in another series, but it shows we're close to be done with these
> large refactorings as far as I am concerned.

Nice.