On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 1:47 AM Nickolai Belakovski <nbelakov...@gmail.com> wrote: > The motivation for the change is some work that I'm doing to add a > worktree atom in ref-filter.c. I wanted that atom to be able to access > all fields of the worktree struct and noticed that lock_reason wasn't > getting populated so I figured I'd go and fix that. > > Reviewing this work in the context of your feedback and Junio's > previous comments, I think it makes sense to only have a field in the > struct indicating whether or not the worktree is locked, and have a > separate function for getting the reason.
Is your new ref-filter atom going to be boolean-only or will it also have a form (or a separate atom) for retrieving the lock-reason? I imagine both could be desirable. In any event, implementation-wise, I would think that such an atom (or atoms) could be easily built with the existing worktree API (with its lazy-loading and caching), which might be an easy way forward since you wouldn't need this patch or the updated one you posted[1], thus no need to justify such a change. > Since the only cases in > which the reason is retrieved in the current codebase are cases where > the program immediately dies, caching seems a moot point. If your new atom has a form for retrieving the lock reason, then caching could potentially be beneficial(?). [1]: https://public-inbox.org/git/20181025055142.38077-1-nbelakov...@gmail.com/
