remote.c: drop "remote" pointer from "struct branch"

When we create each branch struct, we fill in the "remote_name" field from the config, and then fill in the actual "remote" field (with a "struct remote") based on that name. However, it turns out that nobody really cares about the latter field. The only two sites that access it at all are: 1. git-merge, which uses it to notice when the branch does not have a remote defined. But we can easily replace this with looking at remote_name instead. 2. remote.c itself, when setting up the @{upstream} merge config. But we don't need to save the "remote" in the "struct branch" for that; we can just look it up for the duration of the operation. So there is no need to have both fields; they are redundant with each other (the struct remote contains the name, or you can look up the struct from the name). It would be nice to simplify this, especially as we are going to add matching pushremote config in a future patch (and it would be nice to keep them consistent). So which one do we keep and which one do we get rid of? If we had a lot of callers accessing the struct, it would be more efficient to keep it (since you have to do a lookup to go from the name to the struct, but not vice versa). But we don't have a lot of callers; we have exactly one, so efficiency doesn't matter. We can decide this based on simplicity and readability. And the meaning of the struct value is somewhat unclear. Is it always the remote matching remote_name? If remote_name is NULL (i.e., no per-branch config), does the struct fall back to the "origin" remote, or is it also NULL? These questions will get even more tricky with pushremotes, whose fallback behavior is more complicated. So let's just store the name, which pretty clearly represents the branch.*.remote config. Any lookup or fallback behavior can then be implemented in helper functions. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Jeff King committed May 21, 2015 at 00:45 UTC 9e3751d4437b43e72497178774c74be1ceac28b9
4 files changed +5 -9
Documentation/technical/api-remote.txt
-4
@@ -97,10 +97,6 @@ It contains:
97
98 The name of the remote listed in the configuration.
99
100 -`remote`::
101 -
102 - The struct remote for that remote.
103 -
100 `merge_name`::
101
102 An array of the "merge" lines in the configuration.
builtin/merge.c
+1 -1
@@ -955,7 +955,7 @@ static int setup_with_upstream(const char ***argv)
955
956 if (!branch)
957 die(_("No current branch."));
958 - if (!branch->remote)
958 + if (!branch->remote_name)
959 die(_("No remote for the current branch."));
960 if (!branch->merge_nr)
961 die(_("No default upstream defined for the current branch."));
remote.c
+4 -3
@@ -1632,6 +1632,7 @@ void set_ref_status_for_push(struct ref *remote_refs, int send_mirror,
1632
1633 static void set_merge(struct branch *ret)
1634 {
1635 + struct remote *remote;
1636 char *ref;
1637 unsigned char sha1[20];
1638 int i;
@@ -1649,11 +1650,13 @@ static void set_merge(struct branch *ret)
1650 return;
1651 }
1652
1653 + remote = remote_get(ret->remote_name);
1654 +
1655 ret->merge = xcalloc(ret->merge_nr, sizeof(*ret->merge));
1656 for (i = 0; i < ret->merge_nr; i++) {
1657 ret->merge[i] = xcalloc(1, sizeof(**ret->merge));
1658 ret->merge[i]->src = xstrdup(ret->merge_name[i]);
1656 - if (!remote_find_tracking(ret->remote, ret->merge[i]) ||
1659 + if (!remote_find_tracking(remote, ret->merge[i]) ||
1660 strcmp(ret->remote_name, "."))
1661 continue;
1662 if (dwim_ref(ret->merge_name[i], strlen(ret->merge_name[i]),
@@ -1673,8 +1676,6 @@ struct branch *branch_get(const char *name)
1676 ret = current_branch;
1677 else
1678 ret = make_branch(name, 0);
1676 - if (ret && ret->remote_name)
1677 - ret->remote = remote_get(ret->remote_name);
1679 set_merge(ret);
1680 return ret;
1681 }
remote.h
-1
@@ -203,7 +203,6 @@ struct branch {
203 const char *refname;
204
205 const char *remote_name;
206 - struct remote *remote;
206
207 const char **merge_name;
208 struct refspec **merge;