Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/16] shortlog: add missing declaration

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 12:05:34 -0700

Felipe Contreras <[email-masked]> writes:

> Otherwise we would have to include commit.h.

Was there a reason why commit.h is not included here, just like
revision.h would include diff.h, so that users of shortlog.h do not
have to worry about including commit.h themselves?

Note: not requesting the patch to be changed; just inquiring the
reasoning behind a different approach to solve related/same problem.

> Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <[email-masked]>
> ---
>  shortlog.h | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/shortlog.h b/shortlog.h
> index de4f86f..54bc07c 100644
> --- a/shortlog.h
> +++ b/shortlog.h
> @@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ struct shortlog {
>  	struct string_list mailmap;
>  };
>  
> +struct commit;
> +
>  void shortlog_init(struct shortlog *log);
>  
>  void shortlog_add_commit(struct shortlog *log, struct commit *commit);