Re: [PATCH 00/26] Moving global state into the repository object (part 1)

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On 02/13, Duy Nguyen wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 6:49 PM, Duy Nguyen <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 05:22:15PM -0800, Stefan Beller wrote:
> >> This is a real take on the first part of the recent RFC[1].
> >>
> >> ...
> >>
> >> Duy suggested that we shall not use the repository blindly, but
> >> should carefully examine whether to pass on an object store or the
> >> refstore or such[4], which I agree with if it makes sense. This
> >> series unfortunately has an issue with that as I would not want to
> >> pass down the `ignore_env` flag separately from the object store, so
> >> I made all functions that only take the object store to have the raw
> >> object store as the first parameter, and others using the full
> >> repository.
> >
> > Second proposal :) How about you store ignore_env in raw_object_store?
> > This would not be the first time an object has some configuration
> > passed in at construction time. And it has a "constructor" now,
> > raw_object_store_init() (I probably should merge _setup in it too)
> 
> A bit more on this configuration parameters. Down the road I think we
> need something like this anyway to delete global config vars like
> packed_git_window_size, delta_base_cache_limit...  Either all these
> end up in raw_object_store, or raw_object_store holds a link to
> "struct config_set".
> 
> The ignore_env specifically though looks to me like a stop gap
> solution until everything goes through repo_init() first. At that
> point we don't have to delay getenv() anymore. We can getenv() all at
> repo_init() then pass them in raw_object_store and ignore_env should
> be gone. So sticking it inside raw_object_store _temporarily_ does not
> sound so bad.

I like this approach, I mean at the moment we are replicating a single
bit of data but that allows us to be able to limit the scope of where a
repository struct is passed, giving us a better abstraction layer.

> -- 
> Duy

-- 
Brandon Williams



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