On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 04:05:45PM +0000, Olga Telezhnaya wrote: > Get rid of mark_query field in struct expand_data. > expand_data may be global further as we use it in ref-filter also, > so we need to remove cat-file specific fields from it. > > All globals that I add through this patch will be deleted in the end, > so treat it just as the middle step. So this is a similar situation to the split_on_whitespace thing we have in the previous patch. I think many of my comments there could apply here. I.e., do we need to be removing them from expand_data now, instead of just moving the bits from expand_data over to ref-filter? But if we assume for a moment that doing it that way isn't feasible (or at least isn't as easy as this way), then I think what this patch does is preferable to the previous one. By making it a global variable, we can still interact with it from the expand callback, even if it's not part of expand_data(). So the previous patch could make "split_on_whitespace" a global, and then continue to set it from expand_atom() as the current code does. -Peff