Subject: [PATCH 1/3] commit: rename `copy_commit_list()` to conform to coding guidelines

From: Patrick Steinhardt <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2026 10:35:32 +0100

Our coding guidelines say that:

  Functions that operate on `struct S` are named `S_<verb>()` and should
  generally receive a pointer to `struct S` as first parameter.

While most of the functions related to `struct commit_list` already
follow that naming schema, `copy_commit_list()` doesn't.

Rename the function to address this and adjust all of its callers. Add a
compatibility wrapper for the old function name to ease the transition
and avoid any semantic conflicts with in-flight patch series. This
wrapper will be removed once Git 2.53 has been released.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <[email-masked]>
---
 builtin/commit.c |  2 +-
 commit.c         |  2 +-
 commit.h         | 11 ++++++++++-
 merge-ort.c      |  2 +-
 revision.c       |  4 ++--
 sequencer.c      |  2 +-
 6 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/builtin/commit.c b/builtin/commit.c
index 0243f17d53..0aa3690b04 100644
--- a/builtin/commit.c
+++ b/builtin/commit.c
@@ -1849,7 +1849,7 @@ int cmd_commit(int argc,
 	} else if (amend) {
 		if (!reflog_msg)
 			reflog_msg = "commit (amend)";
-		parents = copy_commit_list(current_head->parents);
+		parents = commit_list_copy(current_head->parents);
 	} else if (whence == FROM_MERGE) {
 		struct strbuf m = STRBUF_INIT;
 		FILE *fp;
diff --git a/commit.c b/commit.c
index efd0c02683..c5c66d3a6b 100644
--- a/commit.c
+++ b/commit.c
@@ -680,7 +680,7 @@ unsigned commit_list_count(const struct commit_list *l)
 	return c;
 }
 
-struct commit_list *copy_commit_list(const struct commit_list *list)
+struct commit_list *commit_list_copy(const struct commit_list *list)
 {
 	struct commit_list *head = NULL;
 	struct commit_list **pp = &head;
diff --git a/commit.h b/commit.h
index 79a761c37d..2faf08cd18 100644
--- a/commit.h
+++ b/commit.h
@@ -186,13 +186,22 @@ struct commit_list *commit_list_insert_by_date(struct commit *item,
 void commit_list_sort_by_date(struct commit_list **list);
 
 /* Shallow copy of the input list */
-struct commit_list *copy_commit_list(const struct commit_list *list);
+struct commit_list *commit_list_copy(const struct commit_list *list);
 
 /* Modify list in-place to reverse it, returning new head; list will be tail */
 struct commit_list *reverse_commit_list(struct commit_list *list);
 
 void free_commit_list(struct commit_list *list);
 
+/*
+ * Deprecated compatibility functions for `struct commit_list`, to be removed
+ * once Git 2.53 is released.
+ */
+static inline struct commit_list *copy_commit_list(struct commit_list *l)
+{
+	return commit_list_copy(l);
+}
+
 struct rev_info; /* in revision.h, it circularly uses enum cmit_fmt */
 
 const char *repo_logmsg_reencode(struct repository *r,
diff --git a/merge-ort.c b/merge-ort.c
index 2b837a58c3..f31754c361 100644
--- a/merge-ort.c
+++ b/merge-ort.c
@@ -5301,7 +5301,7 @@ static void merge_ort_internal(struct merge_options *opt,
 			       struct commit *h2,
 			       struct merge_result *result)
 {
-	struct commit_list *merge_bases = copy_commit_list(_merge_bases);
+	struct commit_list *merge_bases = commit_list_copy(_merge_bases);
 	struct commit *next;
 	struct commit *merged_merge_bases;
 	const char *ancestor_name;
diff --git a/revision.c b/revision.c
index 1858e093ee..9f5baceb85 100644
--- a/revision.c
+++ b/revision.c
@@ -4224,7 +4224,7 @@ static void save_parents(struct rev_info *revs, struct commit *commit)
 	if (*pp)
 		return;
 	if (commit->parents)
-		*pp = copy_commit_list(commit->parents);
+		*pp = commit_list_copy(commit->parents);
 	else
 		*pp = EMPTY_PARENT_LIST;
 }
@@ -4294,7 +4294,7 @@ static void track_linear(struct rev_info *revs, struct commit *commit)
 			commit->object.flags |= TRACK_LINEAR;
 	}
 	free_commit_list(revs->previous_parents);
-	revs->previous_parents = copy_commit_list(commit->parents);
+	revs->previous_parents = commit_list_copy(commit->parents);
 }
 
 static struct commit *get_revision_1(struct rev_info *revs)
diff --git a/sequencer.c b/sequencer.c
index 71ed31c774..f38d247b10 100644
--- a/sequencer.c
+++ b/sequencer.c
@@ -1566,7 +1566,7 @@ static int try_to_commit(struct repository *r,
 			res = error(_("unable to parse commit author"));
 			goto out;
 		}
-		parents = copy_commit_list(current_head->parents);
+		parents = commit_list_copy(current_head->parents);
 		extra = read_commit_extra_headers(current_head, exclude_gpgsig);
 	} else if (current_head &&
 		   (!(flags & CREATE_ROOT_COMMIT) || (flags & AMEND_MSG))) {

-- 
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