Brandon Williams <bmwill@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > There has be some desire to add additional flags to the diff machineery > (https://public-inbox.org/git/20171024000931.14814-1-sbeller@xxxxxxxxxx/) but > due to the limits of the number of bits in an unsigned int on some systems we > can't add any additonal flags to the 'flags' variable. This series converts > the flags to be stored in bitfields in a struct instead of in bit positions in > an unsigned int. I haven't checked the patches yet, but its smallness look promising. One reason why I didn't do this myself long time ago was because I suspected that we may be passing an unsigned int that is a collection of flags as a parameter in many codepaths (to which I did not see a good conversion once we start using discrete bitfields in a struct, without passing a "flags" struct instead, which felt somewhat ugly). > Some thoughts: > * We may want to do a follow on patch to convert all the flags from being in > uppercase to lower case. If and only if we do not use macros to set/clr/test, this makes a lot of sense. Otherwise, probably not. > * Maybe we can figure out how to remove the 'touched_flags' things (since its > only used in one place) and then we may even be able to stop needing to use > macros to set/clr/test the flags. Yup. That is closely tied with the above one, but back then we didn't think of a better implementation than the "this was given from the command line" vs "this was initialized and kept", so we need some thought. Thanks for starting this. > Brandon Williams (3): > add: use DIFF_OPT_SET macro to set a diff flag > reset: use DIFF_OPT_SET macro to set a diff flag > diff: convert flags to be stored in bitfields > > builtin/add.c | 2 +- > builtin/commit.c | 7 +++-- > builtin/log.c | 2 +- > builtin/reset.c | 2 +- > diff-lib.c | 6 ++-- > diff.c | 3 +- > diff.h | 96 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------- > sequencer.c | 5 +-- > 8 files changed, 72 insertions(+), 51 deletions(-)
