Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 03/23] refs.c: add a new refs.c file to hold all common refs code

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 14:31:24 -0700

Ronnie Sahlberg <[email-masked]> writes:

> Create a new erfs.c file that will be used to hold all the refs
> code that is backend agnostic and will be shared across all backends.
>
> The reason we renamed everything to refs-be-files.c in the previous patch
> and now start moving the common code back to the new refs.c file
> instead of the other way around is the etive volumes of code.

Huh?  Why not create refs-be-files.c and move whatever need to be
there over there, instead of rename the file and move things that
shouldn't have been moved back like this?

Puzzled.

I do not see 02/23 here, but I am assuming that is is just

    git mv refs.c refs-be-files.c

which may have been a seven-line patch with "format-patch -M" ;-)

>
> With the ref_cache, packed refs and loose ref handling that are all
> part of the files based implementation the backend specific part
> of the old refs.c file is several times larger than the backend agnostic
> part. Therefore it makes more sense to first rename everything to be
> part of the files based backend and then move the parts that can be used
> as common code back to refs.c.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <[email-masked]>
> ---
>  Makefile | 1 +
>  refs.c   | 3 +++
>  2 files changed, 4 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 refs.c
>
> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> index e010ad1..937d22a 100644
> --- a/Makefile
> +++ b/Makefile
> @@ -857,6 +857,7 @@ LIB_OBJS += quote.o
>  LIB_OBJS += reachable.o
>  LIB_OBJS += read-cache.o
>  LIB_OBJS += reflog-walk.o
> +LIB_OBJS += refs.o
>  LIB_OBJS += refs-be-files.o
>  LIB_OBJS += remote.o
>  LIB_OBJS += replace_object.o
> diff --git a/refs.c b/refs.c
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..77492ff
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/refs.c
> @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
> +/*
> + * Common refs code for all backends.
> + */