Toon Claes <toon@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> The `fixup_pack_header_footer()` function uses the global >> `the_hash_algo` variable to access the repository's hash function. To >> avoid global variable usage, pass the hash function from the layers >> above. > > I'm probably being overly pedantic here, so feel free to ignore me. But > you say "pass the hash function", technically that's not correct, you're > passing down the struct that defines several properties of the hashing > algorithm. This includes the hash function, but also other properties > like the hex size. By using "pass the hash function" in the commit > messages (and not only this commit message) it sounds to me like you're > changing the type of the object that desribes the "hash algo". But > again, feel free to ignore this comment. I think the phrasing in the title that uses hash_algo (instead of "hash function") is fine, so we can use "pass a hash_algo from the layers above" in the body, perhaps?