Re: [PATCH] Revert "graph.c: mark private file-scope symbols as static"

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On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 01:08:50PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> John Keeping <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > On Sat, Mar 02, 2013 at 08:16:13PM +0100, Thomas Rast wrote:
> >> John Keeping <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >> 
> >> > This reverts commit ba35480439d05b8f6cca50527072194fe3278bbb.
> >> >
> >> > CGit uses these symbols to output the correct HTML around graph
> >> > elements.  Making these symbols private means that CGit cannot be
> >> > updated to use Git 1.8.0 or newer, so let's not do that.
> >> >
> >> > Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> > ---
> >> >
> >> > I realise that Git isn't a library so making the API useful for outside
> >> > projects isn't a priority, but making these two methods public makes
> >> > life a lot easier for CGit.
> >> >
> >> > Additionally, it seems that Johan added graph_set_column_colors
> >> > specifically so that CGit should use it - there's no value to having
> >> > that as a method just for its use in graph.c and he was the author of
> >> > CGit commit 268b34a (ui-log: Colorize commit graph, 2010-11-15).
> >> 
> >> Perhaps you could add a comment in the source to prevent this from
> >> happening again?
> > ...
> > I would hope that having this message in the history should be enough to
> > prevent this changing in the future....
> 
> Given how it happened in the first place, I do not think anything
> short of in-code comment would have helped.  There wouldn't be any
> hint to look into the history without one.

So you'd accept a patch doing that?  Something like this perhaps:

    NOTE: Although these functions aren't used in Git outside graph.c,
    they are used by CGit.
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