Subject: Re: [PATCH 18/22] lockfile: also keep track of the filename of the file being locked

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2014 10:19:04 -0700

Michael Haggerty <[email-masked]> writes:

> This reduces the amount of string editing gyrations and makes it
> unnecessary for callers to know how to derive the filename from the
> lock_filename.

Hmph.

Is it worth duplicating the whole thing?  If you are planning to
break the invariant lock_filename === filename + LOCK_SUFFIX in
future changes in the series, it is understandable, though.