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

On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 11:50 AM Jonathan Nieder [off-list ref] wrote:

It appears that some patches use a the_index-style
NO_THE_REPOSITORY_COMPATIBILITY_MACROS backward compatibility synonym
and others don't.  Can you say a little more about this aspect of the
approach?  Would the compatibility macros go away eventually?

I use the macro only when not doing the whole conversion in the patch
(i.e. there is a coccinelle patch IFF there is the macro and vice versa).

It's quite frankly a judgement call what I would convert as a whole
and what not, it depends on the usage of the functions and if I know
series that are in flight using it. The full conversion is easy to write if
there are less than a hand full of callers, so for the "small case", I just
did it, hoping it won't break other topics in flight.