On Tue, 19 Dec 2017, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Alex Vandiver <alexmv@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] fsmonitor: Add dir.h include, for untracked_cache_invalidate_path > > Perhaps > > "Subject: fsmonitor.h: include dir.h" Certainly more concise. > But I am not sure if this is a right direction to go in. If a .C > user of fsmonitor needs (does not need) things from dir.h, that file > can (does not need to) include dir.h itself. Hm; I was patterning based on existing .h files, which don't seem shy about pulling in other .h files. > I think this header does excessive "static inline" as premature > optimization, so a better "fix" to your perceived problem may be to > make them not "static inline". Yeah, quite possibly. Ben, do you recall your rationale for inlining them in 6a6da08f6 ("fsmonitor: teach git to optionally utilize a file system monitor to speed up detecting new or changed files.", 2017-09-22) ? - Alex