On Fri, Apr 11, 2025 at 4:10 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Patrick Steinhardt <ps@xxxxxx> writes: > > The `safe_create_leading_directories()` function and its relatives are > > located in "object-file.c", which is not a good fit as they provide > > generic functionality not related to objects at all. Move them into > > "dir.c". > > It may be debatable that <dir.c>, which has traditionally been a > collection of read-only operations (mostly for exclude/ignore > processing), is a good place to host "mkdir -p", but it certainly is > better than having it in <object-file.c> I probably would have expected safe_create_leading_directories() to be moved to "path.[hc]" which already houses functions such as safe_create_dir(), normalize_path_copy(), ends_with_path_components(), longest_ancestor_length(), etc.