On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 08:08:54AM +0000, Olga Telezhnaya wrote: > Make valid_atom as a function parameter, > there could be another variable further. > Need that for further reusing of formatting logic in cat-file.c. > > We do not need to allow users to pass their own valid_atom variable in > global functions like verify_ref_format() because in the end we want to > have same set of valid atoms for all commands. But, as a first step > of migrating, I create further another version of valid_atom > for cat-file. Hmm. So I see where you're going here, but I think in the end we'd want to have a single valid_atom list again, and we wouldn't need this. And indeed, it looks like this goes away in patch 17. Can we reorganize/rebase the series so that we avoid dead-end directions like this? -Peff