Re: [RFC PATCH 00/19] Bring more repository handles into our code base

Stefan Beller [off-list ref] writes:

Additionally each patch adds a semantic patch, that would port from the old to
the new function. These semantic patches are all applied in the very last patch,
but we could omit applying the last patch if it causes too many merge conflicts
and trickl in the semantic patches over time when there are no merge conflicts.

That's an interesting approach ;-)

The original goal of all these refactoring series was to remove add_submodule_odb 
in submodule.c, which was partially reached with this series.

Yup, that is a very good goalpost to keep in mind.

remaining calls in another series, but it shows we're close to be done with these
large refactorings as far as I am concerned.

Nice.