Jeff King <p...@peff.net> writes: > Not related to your patch, but I've often wondered if we can just get > rid of hold_lock_file_for_append. There's exactly one caller, and I > think it is doing the wrong thing. It is add_to_alternates_file(), but > shouldn't it probably read the existing lines to make sure it is not > adding a duplicate? IOW, I think hold_lock_file_for_append is a > fundamentally bad interface, because almost nobody truly wants to _just_ > append.
Yeah, I tend to agree. Perhaps I should throw it into the list of low hanging fruits (aka lmgtfy:"git blame leftover bits") and see if anybody bites ;-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
