Re: [PATCH 2/4] make filepairs detachable

From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: 2006-06-30 18:21:15
On 6/30/06, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
>
> > BTW, is there any chance we get the struct diff_filepair's
> > double-linked? They don't seem to be sorted. Will increase
> > the memory footprint, though.
>
> You do not necessarily have to do things in place.  In fact, all
> of the standard diffcore transformers create a new queue, read
> from the old queue and place the filtered or munged result in
> the new queue, swap the global queued_diff variable to point at
> the new one and discard the old queue.
>
> See diff.c::diffcore_apply_filter() for the simplest example.
>

I see. Looks dangerous outside of diff.c though.
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