On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 10:30:55AM -0500, Derrick Stolee wrote: > On 11/12/2018 9:48 AM, Jeff King wrote: > > In preparation for unifying the handling of alt odb's and the normal > > repo object directory, let's use a more neutral name. This patch is > > purely mechanical, swapping the type name, and converting any variables > > named "alt" to "odb". There should be no functional change, but it will > > reduce the noise in subsequent diffs. > > > > Signed-off-by: Jeff King <p...@peff.net> > > --- > > I waffled on calling this object_database instead of object_directory. > > But really, it is very specifically about the directory (packed > > storage, including packs from alternates, is handled elsewhere). > > That makes sense. Each alternate makes its own object directory, but is part > of a larger object database. It also helps clarify a difference from the > object_store. > > My only complaint is that you have a lot of variable names with "odb" which > are now object_directory pointers. Perhaps "odb" -> "objdir"? Or is that > just too much change?
Yeah, that was part of my waffling. ;) >From my conversions, usually "objdir" is a string holding the pathname, though that's not set in stone. I also like that "odb" is the same short length as "alt", which helps with conversion. But I dunno. -Peff
