Re: [PATCH v3 18/44] refs: move transaction functions into common code

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On Tue, 2015-10-13 at 18:21 -0400, David Turner wrote:
> On Tue, 2015-10-13 at 13:29 +0200, Michael Haggerty wrote:
> > I reviewed the patches up to here pretty carefully, and aside from the
> > comments I already sent, they look good.
> > 
> > I like the new approach where the ref_transaction-building code is
> > shared across backends.
> > 
> > It seems to me that a good breaking point for the first batch of patches
> > would be here, just before you start creating the VTABLE in commit
> > [19/44]. The patches before this point all have to do with moving code
> > around and a little bit of light refactoring. They cause a lot of code
> > churn that will soon conflict with other people's work (e.g., [1]), but
> > I think they are pretty uncontroversial.
> > 
> > After this you start making a few important design decisions that
> > *could* be controversial. Therefore, by making a cut, you can maximize
> > the chance that the earlier patches can be merged to master relatively
> > quickly, after which the cross section for future conflicts will be much
> > smaller.
> > 
> > Ideally, you would include a few later patches in the "pre-VTABLE" patch
> > series. It looks like the following patches also mostly have to do with
> > moving code around, and would fit logically with the "pre-VTABLE" changes:
> > 
> > [24] refs.c: move refname_is_safe to the common code
> > [25] refs.h: document make refname_is_safe and add it to header
> > [26] refs.c: move copy_msg to the common code
> > [27] refs.c: move peel_object to the common code
> > [28] refs.c: move should_autocreate_reflog to common code
> > [32] initdb: move safe_create_dir into common code
> > [36] refs: make files_log_ref_write functions public
> > [37] refs: break out a ref conflict check
> > 
> > I tried rebasing those commits on top of your patch 18 and it wasn't too
> > bad. The result is on branch "refs-backend-pre-vtable" on my GitHub repo
> > [2], including my suggested changes to those eight patches (which
> > therefore became seven because I squashed the first two together).
> 
> Thanks.  I started from that, and made the changes that you suggested 
> in reviews that were not yet in there.
> 
> I also added Jeff's extension patch, since it seems uncontroversial to
> me, and since we'll need it sooner or later anyway.
> 
> I put the result on my github at:
> https://github.com/dturner-tw/git
> on the refs-backend-pre-vtable branch 

While rebasing the rest of the series on this, I noticed an issue in one
of the patches, which I have now fixed.  I re-pushed.

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