Hi, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 11 Aug 2008, Stephan Beyer wrote: > > > diff --git a/builtin-merge-recursive.c b/builtin-merge-recursive.c > > index 09aa830..d8bd21f 100644 > > --- a/builtin-merge-recursive.c > > +++ b/builtin-merge-recursive.c > > @@ -1327,7 +1327,7 @@ static const char *better_branch_name(const char *branch) > > return name ? name : branch; > > } > > > > -static struct commit *get_ref(const char *ref) > > +struct commit *get_ref(const char *ref) > > The name get_ref() is way too generic to be non-static. That's right. > But I have a hunch that peel_to_type() does a lot of what we want here, > if not all of it. get_ref() has a big advantage over peel_to_type(): it can handle trees, via "virtual commits" (make_virtual_commit()). If you wonder where we need to handle trees on cherry-pick/revert: With the -n (no commit) option you are allowed to have a dirty index. So the recursive merge is not done using the HEAD commit but using the uncommitted tree of the index. Well, a good alternative could be to just make the really cool make_virtual_commit() function non-static. The name could be generic enough. Is it? :-) Or perhaps: make_virtual_commit_from_tree(). Btw I also need get_ref() (or make_virtual_commit()) for threeway fallback of the sequencer "patch -3" instruction ("git am -3"). ;) > > + h1 = get_ref(head_sha1); > > + h2 = get_ref(next_sha1); > > + > > + index_fd = hold_locked_index(lock, 1); > > + clean = merge_recursive(h1, h2, head_name, next_name, ca, &result); > > h1 and h2 are not expressive. head_commit and next_commit would be. This is also quite true. Those names, also "ca", were taken from cmd_merge_recursive(). (This is no excuse, just an explanation.) > Rest looks good to me -- even if I had to spend too much time (therefore > being not really thorough in the end) verifying that merge_recursive() > does not lock the index itself, I can't help here. Miklos has the same change in patch v2/2 and I wonder if you really expect that I don't test my patches, because a double lock wouldn't have worked. > and that GITHEAD_* definitions are not necessary anymore, since merge_recursive() > takes the arguments directly; Ok, I hoped that would've been clear by using head_name/next_name directly in the merge_recursive() arguments, but nevertheless thanks for your comment, ...because: using get_ref() the GITHEAD_* definitions *are* still needed, because it takes the GITHEAD_* name for the virtual commits... Under this additional circumstance, I really tend to make make_virtual_commit() non-static. Kind regards, Stephan -- Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@xxxxxxx>, PGP 0x6EDDD207FCC5040F -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html