From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2017 19:31:46 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 00/27] Revamp the attribute system; another round
Message-ID: <xmqqtw83p3dp.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20170209171804.GA61274@google.com>

Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com> writes:

> At least v3 gets the attribute system to a state where further
> improvements should be relatively easy to make.  And now as long as each
> thread has a unique attr_check structure, multiple callers can exist
> inside the attribute system at the same time.  There is still more work
> to be done on it though.  Still my biggest complaint is the "direction"
> aspect of the system.  I would love to also eliminate that as global
> state at some point though I'm not sure how at this point.

We are in agreement 100% ;-) The "direction" was the last thorn I
was fighting with (without successfully coming up with a usable
solution) when I stopped working on my original series before Stefan
took it over.