Re: [GSoC][PATCH v5 0/7] clone: dir-iterator refactoring with tests

[Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com>]

On 03/30, Matheus Tavares wrote:
> This patchset contains:
> - a replacement of explicit recursive dir iteration at
>   copy_or_link_directory for the dir-iterator API;
> - some refactoring and behaviour changes at local clone, mainly to
>   take care of symlinks and hidden files at .git/objects; and
> - tests for this type of files

Thanks.  I read through the series, and only found a few minor nits.

One note on the cover letter, as I'm not sure I mentioned this before.
But as the series progresses and there are less changes in individual
patches, it is useful to include a 'range-diff', so reviewers can
quickly see what changed in the series.  This is especially useful if
they can still remember the last iteration, so they don't necessarily
have to re-read the whole series.

This can be added using the '--range-diff' option in 'git
format-patch'.

> Changes since v4:
> - Improved and fixed errors at messages from patches 1, 3, 5, 6 and 7.
> - At first patch:
>   - Simplified construction, changing a multi-line cat for an echo.
>   - Removed unnecessary subshells.
>   - Disabled gc.auto, just to make sure we don't get any undesired
>     behaviour for this test
>   - Removed the first section of a sed command ("s!/..\$!/X!;")
>     that converts SHA-1s to fixed strings. No SHA-1 seemed to
>     be changed by this section and neither it seemed to be used
>     after the command.
> - At second patch, removed linkat() usage, which is  POSIX.1-2008
>   and may not be supported in all platforms git is being built.
>   Now the same effect is achieved using real_pathdup() + link().
> 
> v4: https://public-inbox.org/git/20190322232237.13293-1-matheus.bernardino@usp.br/
> 
> Matheus Tavares (6):
>   clone: better handle symlinked files at .git/objects/
>   dir-iterator: add flags parameter to dir_iterator_begin
>   clone: copy hidden paths at local clone
>   clone: extract function from copy_or_link_directory
>   clone: use dir-iterator to avoid explicit dir traversal
>   clone: replace strcmp by fspathcmp
> 
> Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason (1):
>   clone: test for our behavior on odd objects/* content
> 
>  builtin/clone.c            |  75 ++++++++++++---------
>  dir-iterator.c             |  28 +++++++-
>  dir-iterator.h             |  39 +++++++++--
>  refs/files-backend.c       |   2 +-
>  t/t5604-clone-reference.sh | 133 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  5 files changed, 235 insertions(+), 42 deletions(-)
> 
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> 2.20.1
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