"Victoria Dye via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > @@ -157,14 +186,18 @@ static int add_tree_entry_to_index(struct index_state *istate, > > static void write_tree(struct tree_entry_array *arr, struct object_id *oid) > { > + struct tree_entry_iterator iter = { NULL }; > struct index_state istate = INDEX_STATE_INIT(the_repository); > istate.sparse_index = 1; > > sort_and_dedup_tree_entry_array(arr); > > - /* Construct an in-memory index from the provided entries */ > - for (size_t i = 0; i < arr->nr; i++) { > - struct tree_entry *ent = arr->entries[i]; > + tree_entry_iterator_init(&iter, arr); > + > + /* Construct an in-memory index from the provided entries & base tree */ > + while (iter.current) { > + struct tree_entry *ent = iter.current; > + tree_entry_iterator_advance(&iter); > > if (add_tree_entry_to_index(&istate, ent)) > die(_("failed to add tree entry '%s'"), ent->name); OK, looking good. If we make _iterator_init() and _iterator_advance to both return the current, then the loop can still be like so: for (ent = tree_entry_iterator_init(&iter, arr); ent; ent = tree_entry_iterator_advance(&iter)) { ... use ent ... } and .current does not need to be a non-private member, if we wanted to (I am not convinced it is necessarily a better interface to make .current as private---especially if we end up needing _peek() method to learn its value, i.e. the value the most recent call to _init() or _advance() returned. If we need a write access to .current from outside the interator interface, then what I outlined above would not be a good match). Thanks.