From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 15 May 2018 08:05:37 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/35] refactoring refspecs
Message-ID: <xmqqvabp8hta.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <20180514215626.164960-1-bmwill@google.com>

Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com> writes:

> This series refactors how refspecs are handled through out the code base
> by renaming the existing struct refspec to refspec_item and introducing
> a new 'struct refspec' which is a container of refspec_items, much like
> how a pathspec contains pathspec_items.  This simplifies many callers
> and makes handling pathspecs a bit easier.

Good.  IOW, a refspec is a set of refspec items, just like a
pathspec is a set of pathspec items.  The two level abstraction
would naturally let us work on individual items as well as the whole
thing as a single set, which is quite nice.