Subject: Re: [PATCH v12 03/13] ref-filter: introduce the ref_formatting_state stack machinery

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2015 11:52:43 -0700

Matthieu Moy <[email-masked]> writes:

> You replaced the quote_style argument with ref_formatting_state, and I
> think you should have kept this argument and added ref_formatting_state.
> The other option is to add an extra indirection like
>
> struct ref_formatting_state {
> 	int quote_style;
> 	struct ref_formatting_stack *stack;
> }
>
> (ref_formatting_stack would be what you currently call
> ref_formatting_state). But that's probably overkill.

I think this is the right way to go.  As you explained in your later
messages, this is conceptually a global setting that applies to
anybody working in the callchain and not something individual
recursion levels would want to muck with.

Thanks.