# Re: \[PATCH v2 5/7\] attr: expose and rename accessor functions

- From: Junio C Hamano \<hidden\>
- Date: 2023-06-26 19:58:47 
- List: git
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2023/06/7971886
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2023/06/7971886/t.md

```text
"brian m. carlson" [ref] writes:

> From: "brian m. carlson" <redacted>
>
> Right now, the functions which determine the current system and global
> gitattributes files are not exposed.  We'd like to use them in a future
> commit, but they're not ideally named.  Rename them to something more
> suitable as a public interface, expose them, and document them.
>
> Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <redacted>
> ---
>  attr.c | 14 +++++++-------
>  attr.h |  9 +++++++++
>  2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

I very much like the updated names.  Thanks for a clean-up that is
long overdue for about a dozen years or so.

```